Your not the only one had this problem. It's there so you can have multiple dump commands with just one object file. On 18 Jul 2010, at 15:23, Stefan Drissen wrote:
> Never mind, the first bytes are used by the loadfile.o routine to load the > object code to the correct address in the correct page... > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Stefan Drissen <stefan.dris...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Maybe I'm just daft, but I don't get it... so I've created the massively > complex m/c routine: > > DUMP 1,0 > ORG 32768 > LD A,6 > OUT (254),A > RET > > I then assemble this (F11) and then run SimCoupe (F9). > > 1. starting SimCoupe starts it without the object.mgt disk being opened. > 2. so open it manually and boot1 > > The object binary is 15 bytes - it should only be 5 bytes based on the source > above. > Viewing the contents of the binary shows that it contains some leading and > trailing rubbish: > > 32768: 0 > 32769: 0 > 32770: 5 > 32771: 0 > 32772: 1 > 32773: 62 <- here's LD A, > 32774: 6 > ... > 32777: 201 > 32778: 0 > 32779: 0 > > What's going on? > > Regards, > > Stefan > > (using Windows Vista x64 just in case it matters). >
