assembly with debug

[ele5125]

Hi, I was just experimenting with a program called debug that comes with Ms-DOS, i used the r comand to display the conetents of the registers, I then used the rax command to view the ax register, noticing it was the same value as befor, so i did another r command an all the registers had the same value, I had a program called winamp running in the background and I am woundering, why did the registers not change, wouldent winamp be useing the registers too?

How come even though I have programs running in the background, the registers do not apear to be changeing?

[rcgreen]

Debug is running in a Virtual 8086 session, emulating
an 8086 PC. It only reports the registers in this
"virtual machine", not the machine that hosts it.

[ele5125]

I would like to thank you so much for helping me as much as you have. Though I do alot of web searching before asking questions sometimes I have dificulties understanding things, and sometimes I just find it dificult to find the answers, and you have been a big help to me. 10X so much for all your help. I am now doing research on this emulated virtual machine 8086 that you mention, it makes sence though, so esentialy the registers I am seeing is not the actual registers but a virtual copy for me to play with, which is good because I would not want to mess with the real registers and goof up anything.