Kowalski Simulator Updates

[8BIT]

jdimeglio wrote:

Bug found

Sorry guys i know Daryl been the man on this but i believe ive found a bug.
See attached example. Basically if i use (using 65C02)

jsr $1000
.ASCIS ESC,"[s"

I should be getting the following bytes $20,$00,$10,$27,$5b,$f3 but instead I get $20,$00,$5b,$f3
So $10,$27 goes walk about. However using .ASCII works fine.

Thanks in advance..

I will look into this - thanks for letting me know!!

Daryl

[8BIT]

I have located the bug with the ASCIS directive and will post a fix by tomorrow.

Daryl

[BigDumbDinosaur]

jdimeglio wrote:

Bug found

Sorry guys i know Daryl been the man on this but i believe ive found a bug.
See attached example. Basically if i use (using 65C02)

jsr $1000
.ASCIS ESC,"[s"

I should be getting the following bytes $20,$00,$10,$27,$5b,$f3 but instead I get $20,$00,$5b,$f3
So $10,$27 goes walk about. However using .ASCII works fine.

Thanks in advance..

I was able to reproduce your problem. One note: you have ESC defined as $27. ASCII <ESC> is $1B or decimal 27. Is that what you meant?

[8BIT]

Edited - file removed. see below.

The bug was created when I added the .DWORD and .XWORD directives. I misinterpreted how the parsing for the directives worked and obviously didn't test it enough . It was a single line change in the assembler code.

It's all fixed now. I'm calling this version 1.3.3.1, as it was just a bug fix.

Here is the new package.

Thank you again Jdimeglio for pointing it out.

Daryl

[jdimeglio]

Many thanks awesome - yep fixed.

Except (sorry) another issue.
PS: I really appreciate your work - i know this is for love rather than for $$$

The issue is i'm getting ERROR E022: Phase error--inconsistent label value between passes
I've tracked it down to being the next label in the code after a .ASCIS is declared

See attached example.

Again thanks in advance

[8BIT]

OK, no worries. I'll take another look later tonight.

Thanks!!

Daryl

[8BIT]

Well of course there is a phase error, I fixed the issue, but only for the second pass where code is generated. The first pass still had the old formula. It won't show up until there is label afterwards. This too is now fixed. Here's version 1.3.3.2.

Thanks again for your help with ironing out the bugs!!

Daryl

[Dr Jefyll]

jdimeglio wrote:

PS: I really appreciate your work - i know this is for love rather than for $$$

I'll echo this, Daryl. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been silently (but gratefully) following the topic. What you're doing is a wonderful contribution, a permanent and solidly valuable asset for our community. Three cheers!

(Thanks to those who assist with their testing and reports, too.)

-- Jeff

[8BIT]

Thanks Jeff, and everyone else too!

I have always loved a challenge, and I think I like coding over hardware - although I do like to take things apart too and see how they work

Its fun to say - hey, I wonder if this "thing" can do that? And then go about trying to get it to do it. And when I have, I start to think, is this the best way, or can I do it better? It never stops.

My hat is off to Michal for building the Simulator. He built a solid platform and gratefully shared his work. Without his contribution, I would not have taken up this challenge. I also have to begrudgingly say thanks to Microsoft for making their development tools available at no cost - love them or hate them, we would not have many of the tools we need without their support.

I hope everyone has a very merry and safe Christmas this year - despite all the doom and gloom in the world, there is still plenty to be thankful for. I for one am blessed with a loving and supportive family and great friends here at 6502.org.

Daryl

[RichCini]

Dr Jefyll wrote:

jdimeglio wrote:

PS: I really appreciate your work - i know this is for love rather than for $$$

I'll echo this, Daryl. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been silently (but gratefully) following the topic. What you're doing is a wonderful contribution, a permanent and solidly valuable asset for our community. Three cheers!

(Thanks to those who assist with their testing and reports, too.)

-- Jeff

I 1000% (that's percent, not binary ) agree with that. Having written complex emulation software before, I can appreciate the effort going into it. Thank you Daryl for continuing to maintain it for the community. I know that I appreciate it very much.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.
Rich

[jdimeglio]

Many thanks Daryl, again really appreciate your time. Now we have a happy Joe down under.

In the Merry Christmas & happy new year people.







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[8BIT]

You're welcome Joe!

Enjoy your Christmas too - even though its summertime for you. Visiting your fine country is still on my bucket list.

Be well!

Daryl

[jdimeglio]

Happy New boys

umm a couple more bugs Promise im not looking for giving anyone extra work.

#1 bug

Opening the memory dump {ie: pressing alt-2} and there's a line across the screen 10 rows down saying debug with the address of the memory block. My guess there's some quick code for debugging left in the compile

#2 bug

.ASCIS bug is back (kinda of) only its when you have a comma and a label in the line.

.ASCIS "123" works
.ASCIS "1","2" works
.ASCIS ESC,"1" doesn't - it drops some bytes.

Yet with .ASCII perfect on all three examples.

Thanks in advance

[8BIT]

Hum, my version 1.3.3.2 does not do that. An earlier version that I still have does do what you describe. Can you verify you have the latest release, which should be 1.3.3.2 as viewed in the "Help - About" screen?

It is also linked here <edit> removed link

Thanks for using the software and please keep reporting any issues you find!!

Daryl

[jdimeglio]

Yup first thing ive checked.. The help -About Screen it says 1.3.2 should it say 1.3.3.2 ?

(and that's from the download link you've provided and note the .zip file says 1.3.3.2)