rudla

Hi! I have some small (i believe ?) improvement ideas. 1. Would it be possible to support full expressions in the memory window (both address and the width), in the same manner as watches work. That way we can write something like dw $58 and see the screen memory (and see it correctly even if the content of $58 has been modified). 2. Commands, that add/remove a watch in the watch window. It would be useful for example in .atdbg file.

You can fill 256 byte table with numbers from min to max (for example for dice it could be 1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6,...). Then you do ldx $d20a lda random_table,x It will be slightly biased toward 1,2,3 and four, as the 256 is not divisible by 6. Very slightly though.

Ideally I would only load DOS and create savestate. Symbols would automatically be loaded with /run on command line i would use when running the emulator next time.

I'm using PC with Altirra, MADS and VisualStudio Code.

The idea is, that we would use the /state switch to specify the well-defined environment (kind of replacing the boot) and then just load the exe into this environment. So instead of hooking into boot process, it is skipped and replaced by /state. It would be possible to save the emulator state after the developed application was loaded from DOS, thus solving for example the DOS 2.0S problem. Of course this is slightly hard-core option, but I thing it could work. I understand, that the environment initialized this way may not be fully correct (for example preventing me from returning to DOS correctly), but it may still be very useful. Thanks for tips with H: device. To baktra & Rybaks. Thanks for ideas, that's bacially how I do it now. However the idea is to have the build environment, where I can hit a hotkey and BANG!, my exe is in debugger in the emulator, with symbols loaded and all the beautiful bells & whistles we already have in Altirra. Loading the application from dos within emulator ruins this user experience completely.

Hi, I'm developing some software that requires DOS using my favorite emulator Altirra. There are many nice options, but I think one extra option would be very helpful in my scenario. I would like to have an option like /state <x>, which would load altirra saved state (*.altstate). This could be used to quickly load state, where the DOS is started and fully initialized (ideally together with some option to have a disk mounted). However, that's not all, /run command would still work. So after the image is loaded, Altirra would load EXE and break at exe start adress or just run the exe (same as if without /state option). That way, we can quickly run the developed program with dos initialized. Maybe we can think of the /state switch as an alternative to resetting the machine (reset the machine to specified state). What do you think, would it be useful? Rudla

@José Pereira I believe there already is Flappy on Atari-8bit. http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=1873 I have made Flappy conversion for Palm and if you would like to make some nice graphics, I will gladly write it once more for Atari :-) Info about Palm version: http://questions.cz/flapy/flapy.html