I've been looking for a utility that will let me step through a dos
program and look at the instructions while also being able to see what
is displayed on the screen. I've not had much luck in finding anything that'll do the job and open to suggestions if anyone knows of something that'll do the job.
Hi all,
I've been looking for a utility that will let me step through a dos program and look at the instructions while also being able to see what is displayed on the screen. I've not had much luck in finding anything that'll do the job and open to suggestions if anyone knows of something that'll do the job.
I've been looking for a utility that will let me step through a dos program and look at the instructions while also being able to see what is displayed on the screen. I've not had much luck in finding anything that'll do the job and open to suggestions if anyone knows of something that'll do the job.
2) Dosbox debugger
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=3944
Nightfox wrote to Nelgin <=-
If you do that, you'll be seeing assembly code, and it will be without
any meaningful variable names, etc.. IMO it tends to be more
challenging to debug that than with higher-level code.
If you do that, you'll be seeing assembly code, and it will be
without any meaningful variable names, etc.. IMO it tends to be
more challenging to debug that than with higher-level code.
Unless the program you are debugging was compiled in debug mode, there won't be any meaningful variables names anyway.
Nightfox wrote to Dr. What <=-
Unless the program you are debugging was compiled in debug mode, there won't be any meaningful variables names anyway.
Yeah, but who releases a program built in debug mode?
I've been looking for a utility that will let me step through a dos program and look at the instructions while also being able to see what is displayed on the screen. I've not had much luck in finding anything that'll do the job and open to suggestions if anyone knows of something that'll do the job.
debug.exe is included with MS-DOS, isn't it?
Re: Debugging 16 bit dos programs
By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Fri Jul 21 2023 12:27:46
I've been looking for a utility that will let me step through a dos program and look at the instructions while also being able to see what is displayed on the screen. I've not had much luck in finding anything that'll do the job and open to suggestions if anyone knows of something that'll do the job.
debug.exe is included with MS-DOS, isn't it?
I don't think that also shows you the program running in real time along with the debug lines.
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