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EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - mjelic - 24-05-2022
So with the help of Chickenman, I am able to get EDASM booted and even have a nice blank disk to save my files to.
Now I'm trying to get my head around the fairly unfriendly EDASM and I downloaded the manual and trying to find the commads to load and save files. (That is always the first thing I try, becuase if you can't save your work, you may as well not bother.)
Now if I read the manual correctly, the command to use is G followed by "filename". On the disk that Chickenman provided, was a couple files that I presume are EDASM files: Example.edt and Examp2.edt
If I TYPE those files out from CPM, they certainly look like Assembly files.
But if I try to load them into EDASM, using the only load command I can find: G"EXAMPLE.EDT", all I get is the misspelled error "Ilegal format"
So, I figure I must be doing something wrong, or I'm looking in the wrong instruction book, or...
Man, this is hard work getting into this...
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - Ernest - 24-05-2022
(24-05-2022, 09:02 PM)mjelic Wrote: But if I try to load them into EDASM, using the only load command I can find: G"EXAMPLE.EDT", all I get is the misspelled error "Ilegal format"
Try G EXAMPLE
That's G for Get and then space then the file name (limited to 8 characters) the .EDT is assumned.
Ernest
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - mjelic - 25-05-2022
(24-05-2022, 11:39 PM)Ernest Wrote: Try G EXAMPLE
That's G for Get and then space then the file name (limited to 8 characters) the .EDT is assumned.
Ernest
Nope. Still not working.
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - ChickenMan - 25-05-2022
Well reading the microworld_z80_editor_assembler_instruction_manual_85.pdf manual, you can only Save and Get files from tape.
From the manual Introduction - The Editor files may be saved to, or loaded from, cassette using the Save and Get commands.
G Get from tape "NAME" or * and S Save file called "NAME"
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - mjelic - 25-05-2022
Really?? They have a CP/M version of EDASM, that loads off a disk, but you can't save your work to that same diskette? Wow. I wonder if anyone ever actually used EDASM to discover this then said, blow this...
Thanks for looking into it, Alan.
PS. How do you "save" or "load" from a "tape" on uBee512?
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - MbeeTech - 25-05-2022
The way to load from disk is :
G<space>"NAME"<RETURN>
Must include the space and you don't include the EDT extension.
Example :
To load BASCOL.EDT :
G "BASCOL"<RETURN>
RE: EDASM - What am I doing wrong? - mjelic - 25-05-2022
(25-05-2022, 10:58 AM)ejwords Wrote: The way to load from disk is :Ah, was missing the Space.
G<space>"NAME"<RETURN>
Must include the space and you don't include the EDT extension.
Example :
To load BASCOL.EDT :
G "BASCOL"<RETURN>
Editor/Assembler Technical Manual has the space missing.
Thanks, Ewan!