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HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #1 Posted by 聲gel Martin on 20 Sept 2009, 3:54 a.m. You can stop holding your breath :) The module is ready and good to go to the daylight. I bet you thought it'll never be finished (I for one did!) but sure enough it's reached the "good enough" stage. A quick recap of its highlights: - a 4-level complex stack, complete for all the functions and routines. - simplified/optimized complex displaying. It now uses the "RE+jIM" notation, more legible with real-life numbers (with EEX part) - The displaying is nor rounded, but Integer numbers will display without trailing zeros in the decimal part. So you quickly tell if it's integer or not (and saves real state in the display). - common factor is extracted when Re(z)=Im(z), and not zero - somehow I found slightly misleading the line "0(1+j)" - 8k module, holding more than 120 complex math and complex stack functions, plus about 20 more buffer-related functions, 98% of them in MCODE - programmable promptimg memory functions - with IND addressing support in run time Already submitted to TOS, should hopefully be ready for download in a few days time. Thanks to those who provided suggestions and actual coding, real MCODE programmers out there. Peter, Eric, Egan, Howard... In particular Doug Wilder for his implementation of the programable prompting routine, and H嶡an Th顤ngren for his coaching on the buffer implementation. It would have taken them just a fraction of the time it took me to put it together had they wanted to! Best, AM Edited: 20 Sept 2009, 4:05 a.m.

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #2 Posted by Egan Ford on 20 Sept 2009, 2:26 p.m., in response to message #1 by 聲gel Martin Thanks. I look forward to using it.

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #3 Posted by Howard Owen on 20 Sept 2009, 7:15 p.m., in response to message #1 by 聲gel Martin Congratulations on implementing all those improvements! I'm sure the programming wasn't a trivial exercise. I'd like to differ with you on one point however. I almost certainly couldn't have implemented those ideas in mcode anywhere near as fast as you could. The only mcode program I ever wrote was a simple initializer for Hepax memory. Stack and buffer manipulation like you achieved would have taken me a long, long time to write. Congratulations again! Regards, Howard

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #4 Posted by Eric Smith on 20 Sept 2009, 8:02 p.m., in response to message #3 by Howard Owen I've found that writing microcode for HPs goes much more quickly when I've got a simulator that lets me single-step through it, set breakpoints, etc. Otherwise debugging is extremely tedious. I have no idea whether 聲gel Martin uses such a thing, though.

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #5 Posted by 聲gel Martin on 21 Sept 2009, 3:29 a.m., in response to message #4 by Eric Smith I wish! Is there one available? That'll sure make my day... you're right it's tedious, but also painful and sooo easy to make mistakes. Yet it's as addictive as any programming language can be, maybe even mode.

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #6 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 21 Sept 2009, 4:24 a.m., in response to message #5 by 聲gel Martin Of course there are simulators with built-in debuggers. One of them is part of SDK41 from Warren Furlow, and the other is part of Emu41 from J.-F. Garnier;-) HTH Raymond

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #7 Posted by PeterP on 22 Sept 2009, 12:50 p.m., in response to message #5 by 聲gel Martin Angel, now I'm even more impressed! You did all of your fabulous MCODEing without Warrens m41? It is a most wonderful tool that allows single stepping of MCODE and many more easy features. I've had to learn how to use it myself and wrote a little expanded manual for it with examples etc which you can find at TOS as well. Cheers Peter

Re: HP-41Z module ready (at last) Message #8 Posted by 聲gel Martin on 24 Sept 2009, 9:24 a.m., in response to message #1 by 聲gel Martin Currently posted & available for download. Feedback is appreciated... hope you enjoy it. Edited: 24 Sept 2009, 9:26 a.m.

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