Re: HP41 PPC ROM Message #15 Posted by Les Wright on 31 Dec 2006, 4:37 p.m., in response to message #1 by Les Wright
I have figured out how to play with the PPC, or parts thereof, portably.
The file ppc.mod can be found with the emulator release on TOS. Also on TOS there is a utility, modfile, that converts *.mod files to *.rom files. I then convert the resultant *.rom file with Thomas Okken's rom2raw utility, and import the *.raw file into Free42 on my Palm.
The only real hassle with this is that the PPC ROM consists of dozens of little programs with two letter names, and they make the program menu on Free42 very busy indeed. Fortunately, for now I was only interested in one routine and its dependencies, so I could just CLP the rest.
For months now I have been praising Free42 for Palm as the best handheld emulation solution for anyone with a larger screen PDA. It runs at processor speed, so is lightning fast, has memory limited only by available RAM on the PDA (typically 4.6 to 4.8 MB are reported by CATALOG-MEM on my Palm TX), the hundreds of *.raw files available on TOS are readily imported, as are modules once they get converted to *.raw files. And it is undergoing continual improvement by the developer.
Happy New Year to Thomas!
Les
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