> At 12:03 PM 7/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >About the debugger for the Stella emulator, I've just got to spend
> >a few hours syncing up my patches (which are against Stella 1.1) with
> >the current CVS code (stella.sourceforge.net). Then it'll be time to
> >give the debugger a nicer user interface...
>
> I hope you know how important this thing is to 2600 homebrewers!
Yeah, it would be a huge boon.
> PCatari's debugger is good in principle but PCAtari in general runs like
> crap on Windows 2000/XP, which leaves developers like me with having to
> basically do everything via trial and error. I tried running the PCAtari
> debugger but it's just too unstable to fiddle with.
> When I was actively working on Death Derby I would literally change one
> line of code at a time and see if it broke the kernel. If it did break I
> really never knew exactly why because I couldn't single-step through the
> code. I could put a BRK in and wait for the program to go black but that
> is about it.
My current technique is to change the screen background color...
ugly little yes/no/when diagnostic.
>
> I think that once Stella has a decent debugger (hopefully one that can
> somehow show where the scanline is in mid screen) that all us newbies that
> are not on DOS will be able to make a lot more progress in our games.
You imply there's a better debugger if you're running DOS??
What is it? I wonder how hard it would be to make a DOS boot
disk...
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