Tebug or Debug which one.

Debug is a file that comes with all Ms-dos and Windows operating system installs. Debug as been around since DOS version 1.1 in about 1981. DOS version  1.0 was the only OS that did not come with Debug. Back in the old DOS days, some would say that if you only had Debug.com  you could build most all of the other DOS programs that you would need. This is of chores a bit of a stretch of the imagination. In Debug ver 1 you would have to poke one byte into memory at a time. Some bytes of code need conversion before inputting them into memory. It would take hours just to do a few bytes of code. Debug ver 2.0 came with a very simple basic assembler built in. Now many lines of code could be done in less than an hour. But the many  assembler out there were far far better. One of the big pit falls of debug.com, was the “W” (write) command. With one typo error It could take out  segments of your hard drive data and render it unusable.  The ‘W” command was finally changed in DOS 7 (window 95) so that this could not happen. But by this time Debug has received a bad name and many are afraid of using it. I have tried to repair many floppy disk and some hard drive that were over written by Debug. (Back then it was “Norton disk doctor” that was used to peace together what was left of the disk.)

tebug.com

What is Tebug. Tebug is a Debug program the I wrote. It was awful. It would crash from time to time. It almost always gave me the wrong data. It was ugly looking and just not user friendly, but I love it because it would do some of the things that I wanted to to do. But the best thing is it would never take out my hard drive. I would add stuff to it from time to time, but I never seem to take the time to clean it up and stabilize it. It would just get more ugly and more unfriendly. Finely in the year of 2008 I was encourage to clean up Tebug.com and that there were about 5 people that would give me 10 bucks each for the new revision for a total of 50 dollars. So with that I set out with the new rewrite called set 1 with 10 upgrades (ver 1 - ver 10). This set only showed me that many  major changes needed to be made. So then there was set 2 with about 12 upgrades (ver 1 - ver 12). A new display type and new key board type and some other changes was added. So then there was a set 3 with about 15 upgrades ( ver 1 - ver 15).  A major change was made to the master ”look up” table. So now we are on set 4 with abut 20 files. A year has gone by and there is still no product. I am going to use set  4, although it dies not have all of the feacture that I hope for, it is very stable.