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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: geoDebugger 2.0
Summary: It exists
Keywords: geos, 128, debugger
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.215559.3001@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 21:55:59 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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You GEOS 128 programmers are going to go nuts over this one:

You all have heard the story about how BSW decided to drop the geoProgrammer
2.0 project, even though they had made significant progress.  Well, as it
turns out, geoDebugger 2.0 was basically finished.  Better than that, pretty
soon we will all be able to get ahold of it!!!!!!

Note that it is intended ONLY as an upgrade to geoProgrammer 1.X, and
therefore only REGISTERED GEOPROGRAMMER OWNERS are legally allowed to
download and use this program.  That being said, let me include the most
recent word we've seen on Q-Link from Berkeley in the person of Jim
Collette:

SUBJ: GREAT geoDebugger news...  (R2) FROM: GEOREP JIM 01/12/91 S#: 413025

Well, this week I received some info from BSW about geoDebugger... more
specifically, a whole slew of info relating to the whole geoProgrammer package
in general, with 2.0 notes and all that.

While reading through this, I found one VERY interesting, and great thing about
geoDebugger 2.0 that I had no idea even existed:

The BackRam 128 Debugger.

Yes, it runs in the back RAM!! The complete functionality of SuperDebugger 
(actually, it can hold MORE symbols, if I read it right) with NO REU 
requirements!

This means there should be no conflict with geoWizard, and even better it means
that it doesn't matter whether you have a 17xx or GEORAM, since it won't need
it at all!

Since there don't appear to be any real improvements in geoDebugger 2.0 for the
64 (it's mostly 128 stuff) I will put off the GEORAM version for now and upload
geoDebugger 2.0 as is. On the 64, it won't be much different from 1.1, so if
you have a GEORAM it shouldn't really matter anyway. With the 128, you will be
able to use the BackRam SuperDebugger which won't need the REU at all.

I will also be uploading the info that I received, as they sent it to me on
disk as well. It's a BIG file (over 100K) but I will compress it with LHArc and
it should shrink down quite a bit. I will also try to make a reduced version of
this file which contains the nitty-gritty info needed for using Debugger 2.0 on
the 128.

                -Jim    :)

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I will grab the archive once Jim puts it on Q-Link, and upload it to Milton.
Of course, this will make my db128rboot obselete, but thats life! :)

-Rob
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu