"V41" for Mac?
Message #1 Posted by Gilles Esposito-Farese on 2 Feb 2005, 9:42 a.m.
Would anybody know about a Macintosh port of "V41",
Warren Furlow's superb HP-41 emulator for Windows
<http://www.furlow.org/>?
Eric Smith's "NSIM" for X window (Unix)
<http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/nsim/>
is very nice, as well as Maciej Bartosiak's port
<http://homepage.mac.com/mba/nsim/>
to Mac OS X, but they are less complete than "V41".
Indeed, "V41" provides the full set of ROMs and packages which were
developed for the HP-41 C/V/X, including the Time Module, Extended
Functions, and the great PPC ROM. It also provides a realistic sound
emulation and an impressive "Turbo" mode. The key mapping is also
very clever, and it works even on foreign laptop keyboards :-).
Maybe someone could teach "NSIM" how to read the ".MOD" files, or
find a straightforward way to translate "V41" to Unix or Mac OS?
[If, luckily, there exists a volunteer, I would suggest to build
a "Carbon" application, so that old OS 9 Macs can also use it.]
Looking forward to receiving hints or answers; all the best,
Gilles Esposito-Farese
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