DOS ain't dead - Insight debugger version 1.23 available

Berlin, Germany,
27.10.2008, 14:15

Insight debugger version 1.23 available (Announce)

Oleg O. Chukaev has released version 1.23 on 24 October 2008.

Home page & download: http://www.bttr-software.de/insight/

Changes:
* Alt+Z in the Dump window expands/shrinks it.
* Home/End now work in the Dump window.
* F6: skip current instruction.
* Fixed: ^A in the Code window do not update the Stack window (try to change SP and then restore it in previous versions).
* Stack window combined with Local variables / Function arguments window.
Content of both windows can be edited (Shift+S in the Code window).
* Fixed: CPU type displayed incorrectly on P-4. Thanks to Robert Riebisch.
* Added 2nd page to the internal Help.
* Current address of the Dump window and the Stack window displayed if corresponding window is in edit mode.
* Current line in the Code window is highlighted even if this window is inactive.
* Insight can be compiled with NASM 2.0+. Patch by Alex Buell.
* Added support for some undocumented instructions. Suggested by Robert Riebisch.
* whatsnew.* are no longer maintained. All changes are described in `changes' and `changes.rus'. Significant changes are marked with *, others -- with +.
+ bp.inc: added comments and optimizations.
+ Fixed: incorrect color of a shadow if atShadow != 7.
+ ...

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Khusraw

Bucharest, Romania,
28.10.2008, 11:21
(edited by Khusraw, 28.10.2008, 12:08)

@ rr

Insight debugger version 1.23 available

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> Oleg O. Chukaev has released version 1.23 on 24 October 2008.
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> Home page & download: http://www.bttr-software.de/insight/

I inadvertently confused insight versions, my former comments (deleted) were about an older version, version 1.23 does much better and is really usable, anyway better than ZD86.

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Berlin, Germany,
28.10.2008, 17:42

@ Khusraw

Insight debugger version 1.23 available

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> I inadvertently confused insight versions, my former comments (deleted)
> were about an older version, version 1.23 does much better and is really
> usable, anyway better than ZD86.

Ah, OK. I already wondered, why those bugs don't occur here. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for your feedback. :-)

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Khusraw

Bucharest, Romania,
28.10.2008, 19:54

@ rr

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> Ah, OK. I already wondered, why those bugs don't occur here. ;-)
> Anyway, thanks for your feedback. :-)

About two-three years ago I downloaded and tested insight and it made me a very bad impression. I asked myself how it's possible for an author to publicly release such a poor work. When I saw that you announced a new version I thought to give it a try again. The problem is that I simply forgot that ancient version somewhere in the path, and initially I retested that version instead of testing 1.23. Unfortunately I realized that the version is not 1.23 only after I posted in your forum. We should be happy that insight looks now like a real debugger and should thank Oleg O. Chukaev for his wonderful work. Let's hope insight will find a lot of users. It deserves!

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