My program crashed the VM

[eekee]

My program crashed the VM

[ThomasTheSpaceFox]

ah. yea the assembler doesn't exactly tell you when the syntax is wrong. (known bug) you may want to take a look at the assembly section of the users manual. the basic arithmetic operations are add, sub, mul, and div. and they work on the values in Registers 1 and 2. and populate register 1 with the result. second, the wait instruction supports a decimal syntax. like so:
wait|:6.2
The actual operation takes a ternary-encoded fixed point number with a range from 0 to 19.683

The assembler is a bit, well dumb. most instructions will treat whats between the first and second separators as 9-trit wide ternary data... what happens is the trom winds up having lines that are too short and contain invalid characters that the VM simply doesn't know what to do with.

[ThomasTheSpaceFox]

if what is in the users manual doesn't work or doesn't help, check some of the dozen-or-so test roms and accompanying source code. a good algorithm example would be fib.tasm (in VMSYSTEM/ROMS)

[eekee]

Ah I see! Thank you.

Not promising anything, but I'll see what I can do to improve SBTCVM-asm.txt.

[eekee]

All sorted, thanks!

I'm adding little extra bits of info to SBTCVM-asm.txt, as I said. I'll see about getting familiar with git so you can pull it when you want.