Comments on The Julipedia: Blog: DEBUG.EXE dropped in Windows 7

I used debug.exe for sweet tweak - clearing the CM...

2011-04-01T01:54:55.500-04:00

I used debug.exe for sweet tweak - clearing the CMOS memmory by few instructions.. Extreme usefull especially when any lammer get new computer and playing with SETUP security to protect his "valuable data". With PC not so big problem - simply clearing CMOS by MB jumper but notebooks have no jumper or its so deep =o) Especially when you cant download & ínstall software for clearing CMOS.. I am missing it so much in Windows 7. Is really no alternative in Win7?

Well, nuts! Someone I knew, a long time back, wan...

2011-03-21T14:15:50.036-04:00

Well, nuts!

Someone I knew, a long time back, wanted a utility sent to him. How? By web mail! Attachments? No, he insisted, had to be via text!

No problem. Used debug to unassemble it all, made a script, and mailed him that. "Run this", I told him, "and the program will come out. It will take about three minutes, though." Worked fine.

What will we use to be clever now?

I just found out ! what a loss. I used this to wri...

2011-03-05T00:33:29.588-05:00

I just found out ! what a loss.
I used this to write my first 8086 asm programs, before using masm. Now I rarely write asm anymore, not even on embedded :-(
Even much later I used debug as a hex editor for a long time until switching to HexWorkshop. I always liked that it was present everywhere you go. Most people have no idea what it does.... memories...
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I'm really annoyed this keeps happening, you g...

2011-02-19T06:12:22.652-05:00

I'm really annoyed this keeps happening, you get used to a tool then MS drops it. Seems to be no equivalent in Win7, why can't they just update it?

I agree that's really a shame this tool is gon...

2010-10-05T09:18:01.780-04:00

I agree that's really a shame this tool is gone.
For a good hex editor I'd recommend HxD, great tool to edit binaries an even content of a disk (raw) and ram afair.

DEBUG was a great way to poke around inside of fil...

2010-08-12T01:35:36.370-04:00

DEBUG was a great way to poke around inside of files.. even text files. Quick, what control character do you suppose that is messing up a utility I've written? Well, load the sucked in debug, page thru from address 0x100 (good old CP/M). What tool do I have now to look into a file - a hex debugger? Someday this, and vi, will make a comeback!:)

Well, crap, I am not happy about this at all. I j...

2010-06-23T20:14:25.789-04:00

Well, crap, I am not happy about this at all. I just got a free development tool taken away from me. It was great for small .com executibles and just as a hex viewer. Now I have to look for something new.

I concur it must go, it was very limited...in that...

2010-03-09T07:55:46.940-05:00

I concur it must go, it was very limited...in that it couldn't do 32 bit registers, not to mention 64 bit ones we currently enjoy. But, as you say, it was great for "debugging" programs of interest. I still use it on my XP machine to test ASM code...but then again, I'm a nerd who still writes code in ASM. :-)

so that was it, hmm i have just finished installin...

2009-12-01T10:07:11.779-05:00

so that was it, hmm i have just finished installing w7. and im back to work, i use debug on my classes, but now, guess ill have to pull up a virtual os on top of my w7 just to be able to use it

Someone whose father used to be an avid pla...

2009-09-29T07:16:29.982-04:00

Someone whose father used to be an avid player of PacMan? Way to make me feel old, dude....

Oh noooooooooooo! cries It was such a superb t...

2009-05-10T14:23:00.000-04:00

Oh noooooooooooo!

*cries*

It was such a superb tool to debug
stuff, easier to use than gdb, and
while not as fancy as Borland’s
Turbo Debugger 1.0, one could write
AND SAVE modifications or entire
programmes in it.

And I used it excessively in debugging
the MirBSD MBR, PBR (bootxx), boot-
loader (boot / ldbsd.com) early sy-
stem startup.