About the built-in Debugger / Monitor

As of version 6, Spectaculator has a built-in debugger / monitor program that you can use to hack games or even to debug code you have written yourself.

It has all the features you would expect of a Z80 debugger and a few unique touches such as:

• Browser like disassembly window with colour-coding and hyper-linked addresses.

• Unlimited breakpoints.

• Unlimited watches.

• Inline assembler for making quick code changes.

• Various trace options including Step Into, Step Over, Step Out, Run to Cursor, Run until Interrupt, Run to End of Frame.

• Find facility that will search for bytes, strings and words (little-endian) in main memory.

• Displays can be switched between hex and decimal.

• Register values can be changed using the registers window. Colour coding shows which registers have changed during single stepping.

To open the debugger

• On the Tools menu, click Debugger.

Tip

• You can also use the shortcut key, Ctrl+Enter to access the debugger. If you are using the Ctrl key as symbol shift, the shortcut key is F10.