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<br><div><div>On 26-Dec-09, at 5:46 PM, David and Jan Takle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">NOVA emulation --- I have RDOS running nicely and am trying to get used to it, reading all the docs I can find (I'm an old IRIS programmer). But I keep hitting a roadblock. I cannot get any binaries to run, either as a program under RDOS or as a standalone program that would be booted by the RDOS "program?" prompt. My guess is that there are some conventions that I am missing regarding how an assembly program must be structured, and/or some particular parameters that are required by the Assembler and Relocatable Binary Loader.<br> <br>I would greatly appreciate it If anyone can supply a step-by-step plan for writing a compatible Assembly program along with the correct ASM and RLDR parameters to create (a) a runnable SAVE program (<a href="http://examp.sv">examp.sv</a>) and (b) and standalone bootable program.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi David</div><div><br></div><div>I contributed the relevant steps to the Nova 3 wikipedia page.</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova#Assembly_language_examples">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova#Assembly_language_examples</a></div><div><br></div><div>You might find my Nova 3 cross-assembler useful.</div><div><a href="http://telegraphics.com.au/svn/dpa/trunk/">http://telegraphics.com.au/svn/dpa/trunk/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Toby</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>Thanks!<br>David<br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Simh mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com">Simh@trailing-edge.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh">http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>