What is SADE?

SADE is not an MPW tool, nor is it physically part of the MPW shell. It is simply a stand-alone application that communicates with your target program under MultiFinder. As in THINK’s LightspeedC, this debugger must be operated under MultiFinder, to allow interprocess communication. Two or more megs of memory are strongly recommended; however, the manual does indicate you can squeeze by with one meg. The only special requirements to run SADE are:

1. You must be using MultiFinder 6.1b7 or later.
2. The (Pascal or C) compiler must be instructed to generate ‘symbol’ files during program compiles.

One of the more interesting design decisions Apple made was to make SADE appear almost identical to the MPW Shell. This has both an advantage and a disadvantage: the advantage is that of instant familiarity to existing MPW programmers; the disadvantage is that this precludes the use of a user-friendly, animated interface (such as the debuggers used in THINK’s LightspeedC and Lightspeed Pascal).

Pillera, Joe. (1989). SADE Debugging. MacTech. (Volume 5, Issue 9).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 5.0 up to Mac OS 7.6

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 5.x - Mac OS 7.x

Note: Requires MultiFinder if running under System 5 or 6

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac