marking them as GFX. Still TODO is somehow differentiate these (based
on block, colour, etc). Also requires testing to see if this slows
down the emulation too much.
Removed un-implemented debugger console commands to query the last
addresses used in the A/X/Y registers, since they're going to be added
to the debugger UI itself in the CPU area.
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values instead of 16-bit.
Fixed compilation of System class and M6502 disassembly tracking when
compiling without debugger support. In this case, the tracking is not
done, and all related operations are completely #ifdef'ed out (resulting
in no extra speed/memory usage at all).
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currently done by remembering the addresses accessed on execution of
LDA/LDX/LDY, and marking them as GFX during a zero-page STA/STX/STY.
This is obviously as WIP and required much more testing, but I'm
pleasantly surprised by how useful it is so far.
Bumped version # for AtariAge test release.
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used as a peek operand). Still TODO is deal with poke areas, which would
be relevant in carts with extended RAM.
The interaction between the internal tracking and Distella is now much
tighter, in that knowledge gained by Distella is used in the core code,
and vice versa. This allows the best of both worlds, where the internal
tracking finds stuff at runtime (that couldn't be found in a static
analysis), and Distella tracks potential paths (that haven't occurred at
runtime yet).
Added 'type' debugger prompt command, which basically queries an address
for its disassembly type (CODE/GFX/DATA, etc).
Added debugger commands to query the last address used in an operation
for various registers, but they're only stubs at the moment.
Updated the bankswitch schemes to deal with accesses in and around the
hotspot areas. Previously, peek accesses in these areas weren't being
recorded as DATA areas.
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realized that not all things that are referenced are actually data; code can be
referenced too.
Implemented handling of 'DATA' directive. This is very similar to 'GFX',
except X's are not shown for the bits, and the disassembled bytes are always
in hex. For now, it can only be activated manually with a cfg command.
Its real value will become apparent once the emulation tracks when
addresses are actually accessed, differentiating from addresses that are
never referenced (ie, 'ROW'). This will fix the current deficiency in
modifying DATA values (it can't be done, since they're packed into 16 bytes per
line and not changable).
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in general) into the emulation core. For now, this means integrating the
directive names into CartDebug, and having Distella using those same names.
The new directive names were determined by discussion with Omegamatrix on
AtariAge, and are listed in order of decreasing hierarchy:
SKIP (the 'bit' trick to skip over sections of code)
CODE (addresses accessible to the program counter)
GFX (addresses where data is loaded into TIA GRPx registers)
DATA (addresses referenced somewhere in the ROM)
ROW (addresses never referenced at all)
The next TODO item is to have the 6502 core set these values during emulation.
This is currently (crudely) done with a true/false setting in System::peek,
where true corresponds to CODE. This will be extended, so that false
corresponds to DATA. Eventually GFX will also be detected, by watching writes
to the TIA GRPx registers. Still to work out is how to detect SKIP sections.
Anything not marked with one of the above directives will be marked as ROW,
which essentially means ROM space that is never used. This will have the
nice side effect of detecting dead ROM space, potentially leading to space
optimizations.
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view. Instead of showing each separate item (in related items), simply
show a 'toggle' option instead.
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accept a second argument, indicating a range is to be used.
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operand should be shown, not the two-byte address which it resolves into.
Bumped version # for another test release.
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disassembly listing) to show/hide opcode/instruction addresses.
The disassembler now includes hints from current PC location *and* 'code
access points' from the emulation core. Testing has shown that some ROMs
don't show completely accurate disassembled output unless both options are
used.
Updated most of the remaining bankswitch schemes to use the new 'code access
points' functionality during disassembly, allowing for very accurate
disassembled output. Note that the more esoteric schemes (AR, 4A50, FE, MC)
are supported for now.
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addresses used as part of code execution (ie, from the PC) during emulation.
This gives Distella much more information than can be determined from a
static analysis alone, resulting in an extremely accurate disassembly.
This also allows to generate very accurate debugger .cfg files.
Not all carts have been ported to this new scheme yet, particularly ones
having extended RAM that can be mapped out dynamically.
Note that this new scheme doubles the amount of RAM used for storing ROM
images, so up to 128KB extra will be used. There's also a small runtime
check for each instruction executed. Preliminary testing doesn't show
any slowdowns, but we'll see how it goes.
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Cart class it's simply an optimization, but the Distella change actually
modifies the list of addresses (vs. modifying a copy of the list).
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Updated Create_builds to properly deal with spaces in Win32 home directory, and to pause until the EXE release file(s) are actually created.
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screen size (vertically), the window will open in partially truncated mode,
where the top of the PAL image is cut off. This normally won't be a problem,
as it's mostly blank space anyway.
App window centering is now honoured when changing video zoom levels, not
just when changing eventhandler states.
Bumped version # for another test release.
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used the current directory.
Fixed error in generating directive lists; there sometimes were 'holes'
at the boundary of CODE <=> DATA transitions.
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directives associated with a given bank (or all banks). Sometimes the
directives are so borked that's it's easier to remove them all at once.
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database, it now has its extension removed (.bin, .a26, etc).
Symbol and config files are now loaded when the debugger is first entered,
not when the ROM is actually loaded. This speeds up ROM loading, since
the user may never need to access these file (ie, they may never enter the
debugger).
The debugger 'loadconfig' and 'saveconfig' commands are now implemented.
Bumped version # for next test release.
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Basically, directories are now guaranteed to always end in the path
separator. Ensuring this makes certain sections of code work faster,
and guaranteeing it allows higher layers of code to not worry about it.
Added 'cfgdir' commandline argument, to specify the default directory
for Distella-like Stella-compatible config files.
Implemented 'loadconfig' debugger prompt command. It's currently
working great with several test config files provided by Omega of
AtariAge.
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mouse button context menu in the disassembly listing. This is used to
set the default display format for GFX data sections (currently, binary
and hex are supported).
Fixed bug in several debugger input areas to accept the '\' symbol.
This symbol is needed when entering data in binary format (it must
prefix the data if the default base for that field isn't binary).
Added 'jump' debugger prompt command, used to scroll the disassembly
to the given address (or there-abouts, if the address isn't valid).
Editing data in the disassembly now won't cause the display to jump to
the current PC. The display will only move to the PC when it actually
changes.
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There was a bug in the linked list code causing directives to be added
incorrectly. Also, merging is now done when possible instead of
creating new nodes. This keeps the directive count as small as possible,
and also helps with memory (less allocations happening).
Fixed bug in printing the 'ORG' directive; it was being printed
before the bank was disassembled, so on the first run it was always 0.
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longer simply added to a list, but intelligently 'merged' (so that
the entire range represented by all directives contains no overlap).
This makes the disassembly a little faster, since it doesn't have to
iterate redundantly. Still TODO in this area is intelligent insertion
for the same type (ie, if inserting in between like blocks, the
blocks should coalesce, instead of being clipped and then a new range
inserted in between).
Added 'loadconfig' and 'saveconfig' debugger prompt commands, which
will eventually access Distella-like config files. No implementation
is present yet.
Added 'listconfig' debugger command, which lists all directives
currently defined by the user, as well as the directives resulting
from a disassembly of a bank (taking into account extra knowledge
that Stella has WRT cached entry points). This command can show
information for a specified bank, or all banks in the cart.
User-defined directives can now be removed; simply issue the same
command that caused an insertion (ie, attempting to insert the same
type and range will remove it instead).
Fixed bug in Distella processing of directives; similar to the
standalone Distella, directives should be processed *before* any
automatic code determination is done.
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from a Distella config file. For now, the commands are only accessible
within the debugger prompt, and can only be added (no removal/editing).
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case-insensive. Currently supported are all commands and
pseudo-registers. Equates/labels and user-defined functions are
still a WIP, since they're stored in various hashtables accessible
by name, which is still a case-sensitive operation. In general,
tab completion is mostly case-insensitive.
Changed the delimiter for surrounding lines with spaces from curly
braces ({}) to the apostrophe (').
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address space is shown (either $F000 - $F7FF or $F800 - $FFFF).
This eliminates a lot of .byte directives that are invalid in
2K mode anyway, and speeds up the disassembly a little.
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'Virtual Devs' tab to 'Devices & Ports'. Updated documentation and
snapshots for this change.
Added Halo 2600 ROM info to internal properties database.
Increased default setting for 'joydeadzone' from 0 to 13. This means
the default deadzone is somewhere around half the axis range (~16500).
Fixed behaviour of hat events; events weren't actually being turned off
until the stick was centered.
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seems that bankswitching wasn't being enabled before rewinding, and hence
any bankswitching being done on state load was being ignored. This also
affected the loadstate and savestate debugger commands, which weren't working
for exactly the same reason.
Bumped version # for impending point release.
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Added 'ramrandom' commmandline argument, used to toggle randomizing or
zeroing or all RAM in the system (both zero-page and SARA).
Disassembler now properly supports all test cases, including rewinding
within the debugger.
Added preliminary support for disassembling from zero-page RAM.
Bumped version # for final release.
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The disassembler now accepts a range of start addresses and remembers
old entry points, so the disassembly becomes more complete each time
the debugger is used.
Changes to address offsets within the same bank are now supported
(ie, changing from $fxxx to $dxxx within the same bank properly
updates the display).
Re-added ability to manually change banks from the debugger prompt
and the disassembly UI. This now works correctly with the Distella
code.
Cleanup of the Cartridge::bank(...) API: if a bank cannot be changed,
the calling code will now know about it. This fixes confusion with
some ROMs, whereby changing a bank in the debugger prompt would print
a success message even if the operation failed.
Note that these changes have broken rewind in the debugger. Actually,
it only exposes problems that the rewind functionality already had :)
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Some messages now use a smaller font, so the UI doesn't look quite
so monotonous.
SliderWidgets suppport the mouse scroll wheel to change values.
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matched anything most of the time. Also, as this operation can take
a somewhat long time on slower systems, a progress bar is now shown.
Fixed handling of bit 6 in VBLANK TIA register, which is related to
how INPT4 and INPT5 are handled. This fixes at least one ROM that
should have failed in Stella, but didn't.
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