Re: Call for HP71 emulation for iPhone - JFG et al? Message #3 Posted by Egan Ford on 16 Jan 2009, 5:04 a.m., in response to message #1 by PeterP
Anything is possible. I had no problems porting x48 (48GX emulator) to a slower circa 2004 ARM processor (http://sense.net/zc/x48/). And it actually runs faster. So Saturn emulation (71B uses Saturn too) is not an issue. However the rest of the 71B HW emulation I suspect is non-trivial.
I did get EMU71 and EMU41 running on my Blackjack using a DOS emulator (http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv017.cgi?read=118284). I also have both running on my old Zaurus (same 2004 ARM processor mentioned above) with DOSBox and Bochs.
So, a DOS emulator for the iPhone may be an option. But, I think it will not be very usable. I use iSSH on my phone in extreme emergencies and find that trying to have an 80x24 display with keyboard very cumbersome. 71B for the iPhone would be better as a new app. However if you want to try it out I can probably setup a Linux machine with DOSEMU and EMU71 and you can use iSSH to get to it and run EMU71.
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