Is there a way to take compiled code generated by ZBasic for the ZX128ne and run it on the OM128?

-Tony

The simple answer is no.

The ZX native mode mega128 code will only run on a ZX-128ne because it relies on functionality provided in the ZX native mode boot loader.

Interesting. The ZX native mode bootloader does more than just provide bootloading functions? It also contains some code commonly used by programs that would normally be linked-in from a pre-written library in a regular C program? Do you know what sort of functions the bootloader section provides?

I wrote a very simple (maybe too simple) program that did nearly nothing other than do a debug.print of some elements of bytevectordata ( which contains all zeros). I did not see any long string of zeros in the ZXB file at all. It looks as if maybe it was optimized away? Apparently the ZXB file is a bunch of 256 byte intel hex file entries. But it is rather smaller than I thought it would be. I suspect that the RTOS functions are the ones contained in the bootloader section, but I am surprised that the bootloader is big enough for all that.

-Tony

The ZX boot loader is 4K bytes in size (as you can determine from examining the fuses). This is quite a lot of space for all kinds of functionality needed by the ZX platform. I don't know the exact functionality in the boot loader and so any answer here is mere speculation on my part.