DarkPlexus

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i need to be able to use the old debug.exe in dos, but i don't have dos/windows/etc installed on my system.

i don't want to put windows or old dos on my system since it'll allow other people to have weird access to my files that i can't allow.

i know of dosbox, have it installed. but the debug.exe from my old start up disks, when launched on dosbox, will tell me incorrect version of ms-dos.

assuming this is true. i can change the reported version using the ver command (ver set 6) and it'll then say ms-dos 6.0

the problem is that i've tried to set a lot of versions and so on, and still no luck. and i have no idea how to check what version the program needs.


since all this needs to be run on linux somehow. it would be nice if i had a program like dosbox (maybe that *is* what i need, somebody will have to tell me).. uhh the idea is that i wont be able to use the linux kernel for interrupts, i'd have to use windows or dos or whatever. so i'd need to emulate that somehow, since the interrupt requests are mostly all diff, an no good to put assembly from dos to linux etc...

anyway, i'm at a loss and i've been searching around for a few days trying to find something. this is for school, and they'll be using windows xp or vista or something horrible. we'll be using ms-dos (version?? i dono) and the old debug.exe

i'm looking for debug.exe type of program that will work on linux/unix/etc, that actually does all the things (or close to it ofcourse) to the dos debug one.

need it for x86 intel type cpu's
and.. would be good if it wasn't the at&t %syntax %thingy

then we'll be moving to nasm or masm or whatever.. ..yasm..
i have them all installed for the linux versions of them, none for dos/windows

i've started to learn how to do assembly on linux on my own, and i'm trying to re-do what i didn't quite learn the first time for dos assembly...

GlennsPref

Hi, I'm no expert, but have you had a look at gdb?

gnu debug...

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/

This is what they use at my university. It may be installed by default on some distributions.

In a shell (like konsole or term) type

man gdb or info gdb

Cheers, Glenn

paulsm4

This sounds like a job for VMWare. Or VirtualBox (aka "VBox").

Just build a DOS VM (with matching OS and debug.exe), fire it up in VMWare or VBox ... and you should be in Fat City.

Good luck .. PSM