Short:    Low Level Debugger
Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Author:   thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Type:     dev/debug

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**              A Low Level Debugger for all Amiga Systems                 **
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			About COP

COP is a low level debugger for all amiga systems. "Low Level" means it
directly plays with the hardware, does not have GUI, but is unbeatable
stable. Its main purpose is to debug programs not debugable with the usual
"source level" debugger, like hardware device drivers, DOS handlers in action
and much more. It supports debugging by the serial port, thru a standard
tty terminal (also a COP type 5 terminal is better. A terminal program
for amigas is included), and a build-in terminal emulation in case no 
second computer is available.

In case you want to use COP, make sure:

-that you really want it. COP is not easy to use!
-that you know assembly language. It won't work without!
-that you have a lot of good will!



Be warned!
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This release, also it's version 1.57, is a sort of beta-release. I haven't 
tested it fully with the MC68060 CPUs, although it seems to work 
(thanx Olli!), and some features are still missing. The disassembler is 
obsolete and will be replaced within the next releases, propably in 1.60. 
Stay tuned!

EMail:  thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de

WWW:    http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/thor/index.html


By the way: You should read the documentation first (before trying to get
COP running)!

Thomas

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Changes made since 1.56:

-Added PAL/NTSC switch.

-Added a check for many command that won't work in a splitted display.

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Changes made since 1.55:

-Removed a bug in the printer hardware driver that caused one additional
 character to be printed.

-Added command to eject paper.

-Added Enforcer support for the MC68020 and MC68030 CPUs.

-Added partial MMU support, however no MMU related commands are available.
 Enforcer must be run for this purpose.

-Added IRQ CopyBack mode.

-Fixed several final bugs in the 1.55 release, esp. some MC68060 related,
 although the support isn't complete yet ('60 FPU support is still somewhat
 broken, as the FPU part must be re-written anyways).