[hatari-devel] Hatari debugger immediately showing regs & memdump?

Thomas Huth huth at users.berlios.de
Sun Apr 5 10:29:21 CEST 2009


On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:26:36 +0000
Kenneth Kaufman <kvkconsultancy at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This brings me to a nice conclusion (for myself). What we could do
> with is an HAtari API for third party applications. One of the "plug
> in" points could be "on BUS error" or OnDebug. 
> 
> If I was doing this for a Windows project I would have a plug-in
> directory from which the application would load any DLL's in the
> directory. The DLL's would provide Exports which HAtari would
> understand (like HAtari_OnBUSError and HAtari_OnConfigChange or
> whatever) and call at the appropriate times. 
> 
> If we provided an API like that for HAtari then people could more
> easily make little customisations for themselves (and provided them
> for others). Thats as far as i've thought so far. What thoughts
> everyone?

That's theoretically a nice idea, but a cross-platform plugin system is
not very easy to do, I think (DLLs for Windows, .so for Linux, .dynlib
for Mac, ...), and I guess hardly anybody (apart from you) is going to
use that, so let's better focus on more important topics (see the TODO
list ;-) )

 Thomas



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