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Nostalgia is a funny thing. If you experienced the early days of video games in the 1980s and 90s, there’s a good chance you remember those games looking a whole …read more Continue reading Cranking Up the Detail in a Flight Simulator from 1992
Debugging might be the one thing that separates “modern” programming from “classic” programming. If you are on an old enough computer — or maybe one that has limited tools like …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own Python Debugger
Some of you may have heard of the ROMulator, a device that can emulate RAM and ROM on 6502-based computers. But how does it work? How do you use it? …read more Continue reading Debug Your Senile Computers With The ROMulator
Retired hardware engineer [Plasmode] recently took on the challenge of building a debugger for the 6502 designed to sit atop the microprocessor while seated in a solder less breadboard. The …read more Continue reading A 6502 Overlay Debugger
For as popular as the Arduino platform is, it’s not without its problems. Among those is the fact that most practical debugging is often done by placing various print statements …read more Continue reading A Usable Arduino Debugging Tool
[Sarah K Marr] dabbles in retrocomputing and has a fascination with the Hewlett Packard HP-45 calculator, the second calculator in HP’s series introduced in 1973. Over a year ago, she …read more Continue reading HP1973 Project Highlights Workings of HP-45 Calculator
There are some fairly powerful debugging facilities available on today’s microcontrollers — if your code crashes mysteriously, chances are, there’s a debugging interface that could let you track down the …read more Continue reading ORBTrace Effort: Open Tool For Professional Debugging
If you want to buy a car, there are plenty of choices. If you want to buy a jetliner, there are fewer choices. If you want to use the Large …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Up Your GDB Game!
Being able to track down a bug in a mountain of source code is a skill in its own right, and it’s a hard skill to learn from a book …read more Continue reading Digging into an ATtiny Simulator Bug with GDB
If you do much Linux shell scripting, you’ve probably encountered sed — the stream editor — in an example. Maybe you’ve even used it yourself. If all you want to do is substitute text, it is easy and efficient. But if you try to do really elaborate editing, it is …read more