It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday November 3, 2026; 12:21 PM EST
Frontier's debugger is back#
  • The Frontier debugger now works in Atlantis, the version of Frontier that runs on modern systems, the one I have been using for everyday work for a month or so. #
  • I write software in the debugger, testing each addition after writing it, to see that the input produces the expected output. I also use it to see why code that has worked for 10 years now doesn't produce the expected result, ie debugging. #
  • A UserTalk script, stopped at a breakpoint. Full size screen shot. #

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