where did you set the start of the assembly to compile to?
possible you are compiling to a protected memory space like the lower 32k,
or a space that overlaps the M100 OS, files, etc.?



On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:38 AM Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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