I have been using a 68HC11 simulator program to help me understand the assembly language. The demo version has memory restrictions and I can only play with pieces of code at a time.

I'm curious if anyone else has used an emulator program like this to test code on? And would I even be able to test the full source code using something like this?

At the very least, its a nice tool for understanding the assembly language since you can step through the code one line at a time and see how its modifying the registers, memory, stack etc.


http://www.hc11.demon.nl/thrsim11/info.htm

 

I think there are some freeware simulators as well. I downloaded one but didnt really do much with it. You could also use a test bench and an ecm. Thats what I did. I first started experimenting with code by writing small stand-alone algorithms that did some basic stuff like trigger outputs or relay calculations via the outputs.