Subject: Re: [stella] Stella 2.0 alpha 1 available From: "Leon Petrus" <nanaxampi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:18:07 -0400 |
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Watson" <atari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:07 AM Subject: RE: [stella] Stella 2.0 alpha 1 available > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Fred Quimby wrote: > > >> The 2 major ones in Alpha 1 are in the "disasm" command: the hex bytes > > > > Yes, the hex bytes were among the things I noticed, but it happpened to me > > when using the trace or step command (can't remember which one.) > > Same bug, same cause, same fix.. > > > I had another thought. Other debuggers I've used will highlight any updated > > bytes, registers, etc. in red when you step, trace or whatnot. In the > > memory window, for example, when I'm jumping by frames, it's easy for me to > > miss some of the bytes that are updated, and impossible to determine which > > were written to but had the same value written back. So I wonder how hard > > it would be to change them to red or highlight them in some way? This would > > be a nice addition. > > You've used some nicer debuggers than I have :) > > It should be possible to do. I'll pass it on to Steve, he's the GUI > guy. I'm doing the prompt and low-level stuff... I can already see how > to get the emulation core to support this. > > I'd say the CPU window should do the same thing for the registers, > and the TIA window too (when it's implemented). > > This is the worst problem we have: neither of us has used enough > different debuggers to know what features people expect to see. Most > of my debugger experience is limited to non-graphical ones: various > Commodore 64 machine language monitors, the DOS DEBUG command, and > gdb. I did use Turbo Debugger for a while in school (not a full GUI, > but a curses-style text UI), but that was many moons ago :) > > So we're definitely open to feature requests. > > -- > B. > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com
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