Monitor program

[rslite]

Would it be possible to have a monitor program that would run on a connected computer and allow memory/code viewing, maybe single stepping through the Z80 code?

[andypiper]

This is (sort of) possible today, if you build and upload the firmware with PlatformIO with the monitor option, you can see output from the firmware on the serial console. However, at the moment it doesn't do things like poking around inside the Spectrum ROM when it is running. Interesting idea.

I'll migrate this from Issues to Discussions and add this to the ideas list in the wiki.

[cgreening]

We could easily extend the serial interface and build a nice web front end for this.

Another option would be to implement a debugger protocol - let me dig out the information for it. But potentially, it should be possible to set things up so that you could run a Z80 debugger in VSCode and have it connect to the running emulator.

[cgreening]

Here you go:

https://github.com/maziac/DeZog

[cgreening]

But we could build quite a simple web thing. I'll see if I can "vibe" code something quick and easy that would let you do pokes.