Monitor Commands - Sharp MZ-700 Owner's Manual

5. 1
Monitor Commands
The monitor program starts immediately after the power is turned on and awaits input of a monitor
command. The monitor commands are listed below. In this chapter,
I CRI
indicates that the carriage return
key is to be pressed.
L command
P command
Loads cassette tape files into memory.
Outputs the specified character string to the printer. (Print)
M command Changes the contents of memory. (Memory correction)
J command ...... Transfers control to the specified address. (Jump)
S command
V command
#command
B command
Saves the contents of the specified memory block to cassette tape. (Save)
Compares the contents of cassette tape with the contents of memory.
Transfers control to the RAM area.
Makes the bell sound every time a key is pressed. Executing this command
again stops the bell.
• Configuration of the monitor work area
The configuration of the monitor work area from $1000 to $11 FF is shown below.
$0000
Monitor
$1000
Stack area
$10 F O
Cassette tape
header area
$1 1 70
Variable area
$ 11A 3
Key input data area
$1200
Free area
Note: The ROM monitor described in this chapter is not the same as the monitor function of the BASIC
interpreter.
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