Filing bug reports

This is the starting place for reporting bugs to the team. We will pass bug reports on to the developers after validating the reports.

You can report bugs in hardware, operating system (KERNAL or BASIC ROMs), the emulator, or the Demo library. For bugs specific to downloaded programs, use the download forum.
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TomXP411
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General - CX16 Filing bug reports

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Since we have several different places internally where bug reports can be handled, this forum is a unified place to handle bug reports for the system. (Don't reply to this thread; create a new thread for new bugs. Feel free to reply here for clarity on the process.)

This includes:
  • ROM (KERNAL, BASIC, GEOS, MONITOR, etc)
  • Emulator
  • Documentation: The Programmer's Reference that has things like the addresses of registers, list of BASIC commands, list of KERNAL routines, etc.
  • User Guide: the "friendly" guide similar to the VIC-20 programming guide)
  • Demo Repository
  • SMC: the keyboard and power control interface
  • VERA Module: the Commander X16's graphics chip
This does not include bugs in third party software, unless you are a developer and your software is breaking because of a system problem.

Please report bugs here, and we will sort them into the appropriate place. Reporting them here also helps us prevent duplicate bug reports, in the event we've seen this bug already.



To file a bug, please include:
  • The nature of the problem (ie: "the emulator crashes when I try to OPEN 8,8,8,"DIR.DIR,S,W")
  • Specific reproduction steps:
    It only happens when first booting the emulator.
    You must type 10 OPEN 8,8,8,"DIR.DIR,S,W" and then RUN without typing any other command.
  • If it's not obvious, what do you expect to happen? (The file should open for writing, without crashing the emulator.)
  • Include details about your computer (Windows? Linux? Mac? What graphics card are you using?), the version of the emulator and ROM (if known), and your X16's serial number if you are on hardware.
  • If the problem seems to involve files, are you using the HostFS or SD card emulation?
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