Date   : Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:10:54 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: First release of BBC Debugger!

Adam Hamilton writes:
>Hi everyone.
>
>As a stepping stone to writing my own BBC emulator I have written a fully
>graphical debugging environment for a BBC emulator.

The debugger looks neat, but at the risk of sounding like a parrot I have to
ask: Why yet another BBC emulator? What is it about BBC micro enthusiasts
that makes them all want to write their own BBC emulator? Why not contribute
to one of the existing emulators, if it doesn't do what you want?

I would love to see one good, open source, cross-platform emulator for the
BBC micro, which could cope with the differences and allow customisation of
the emulated hardware (BBC, Master, B+ 128, electron, 8271/WD1770/1772 disc
chips, Econet, etc). It would be even better if it had an assembler-level
debugging mode, and could fake a DFS to allow use of the host platform's file
system. I know that none of the emulators out there support all of this. But
why write yet another one, rather than add features to an existing one?

a.