In the early 8 bit micro days there was Intel HEX format - used for this
sort of purpose. I thought I had a spec. but cannot lays my hands on it.
There are various tools around, in C and in Z80/8080 assembler for
converting etc.
Jim
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Simon Wood wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm still playing around at ELKS and have the idea for a simple loader for a
> diskless psion.
>
> Take a a.out executable and convert it to a hex dump of the memory it will
> occupy (once loaded) and then transfer it across to the machine, and jump to
> the base location.
>
> How can I do the expanding bit? Are the tools out there already? Or do I
> have to code it myself?
>
> Preferably I would like the hex dump to be in the form below, but I am
> flexible on that..
> 00a500:a9f20854c...90
> 00a510:2c51234..ff
>
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