[Coco] cartridge edtasm image for vcc

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Sep 1 03:44:07 EDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
> wrote:

> On 01/09/2010 05:21, Mark McDougall wrote:
>
>> On 1/09/2010 10:01 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> You might find MESS useful here. It has a debugger that lets you halt,
>>> step through instructions, inspect/edit multiple memory areas at the same
>>> time, set breakpoints, view registers, etc. It's very nice for debugging
>>> tricky code. You can also save/restore the machine state an any point.
>>>
>>
>> I second this. I've used MESS extensively for
>> debugging/reverse-engineering Coco stuff...
>>
>
> Yeah here too, and not just on the CoCo, the fact that you can suspend the
> emulation and look at the state of the hardware really does help with
> debugging.
>
> Sounds like a wonderful tool for the removal of copy protection!  <grin>

Art



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