I get the impression that the TRS-80 Model 100 Assembler|Debugger, aka
ZBUGASM can't really be run from RAM. Has anyone tried it successfully?
I used TEENY and dl to get ZBUG.BA and ZBUG.CO loaded onto my 32K RAM
m100. I then ran zbug.ba (which is a basic stub to clear memory and run
the assembler)... fine, it loaded up the assembler no problem. I then
typed in a small asm example into TEXT from the book, saved it, and
tried to assemble it from ZBUG but got an out of memory OM ERROR.
ZBUG.CO is 8K on disk, after getting it on to the disk, I'm left with
about 12K. I deleted ZBUG.BA, TEENY.CO and every other file, recleared
memory and still get the OM ERROR when trying to assemble. Seems like it
ought to be enough to do an assembly. The manual does make mention of
loading it from tape if memory's tight, but surely it would have said
that it was required to load it from tape and not provide instructions
for saving to and running from RAM if it could not be run from memory?
Thanks,
Will
