Re: Jace. it is stable.

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:46:49 PM UTC-5, datawiz wrote:
> Great work, Brendan! Your hard work is appreciated, and it looks like you've been able to tackle quite a bit of new stuff recently (RamFactor and Mockingboard). I've been using it more and more since playing around with WUSDN-- The heatmap is pretty slick. 
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> Any idea of what you're adding next? 

Because Jac integrated Wudsn (a proper IDE) it would make a lot of sense to tackle proper debugging.  The F10 debugging panel and the trace-to-stdout are only marginally useful.  I have been doing many rounds of optimization under the hood to pave the way for a high-performance debugger.   But it will have to wait a little while.  I need a little break from this to focus on non-computer stuff for a while. :-D

I should probably hand over some code I wrote to disassemble Applesoft.  It probably wouldn't be a lot of work to rig up a functional applesoft basic editor view in Wudsn if I give Jac the bits to convert code.  Since Wudsn is also written in that god-forsaken bloated java, it's right up my alley.  ;-)

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> If you're taking requests, I'd like to see the debugger improved a bit, and is there any way that Uthernet support can be added? I'm thinking that might not be possible, as it would require a virtual NIC of some sort to bind to, and that may be more OS specific...

A virtual NIC would be difficult, but the java port handling code is pretty well handled in the SSC emulation.  I think that outbound TCP/IP would be extremely trivial.  But because uthernet isn't used much outside of Contiki (granted, Contiki is really cool) it wouldn't get as much bang for the development buck as, say, a real debugger.

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> Regards,
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> Rich