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Metascope is a debugger that allows you to see the assembly source code of any program that you can call from a CLI. The user interface to most debuggers I have worked with before are very much command line oriented and this can make them rather hard to learn and also do not communicate that well with the user. Metascope is very window oriented. To view any part of memory (even the 'ROM') you simply open a window to it and you see in the window either the code (disassembled) or the data printed in the window in any way you like. You can scroll back and forth through memory with the window gadgets. You can singly step through the program one instruction at a time or in chunks with you setting the breaks that determine where execution starts. At all times a seperate window displays all the 68000 registers and condition codes. If you ever want to change something you simply click on it with the mouse and then type in the new value. This is real nice. If you find a bug you can simply change the instruction on the fly and see if the new instruction works. A nice thing the makers of MetaScope did was alter the string gadgets that they use so that they come up active rather than having to click on them before you can type into them. This really makes string gadgets nice. The new 1.2 provides for this but I was impressed by Metadigm for going to the extra work to make their product better for the user. I know nothing about the ChessMaster game format. Sorry. Darrel Highest message read: 33996 Enter a new value, L for Last, or <CR> for no change: 33419