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(41cx) Mancala Board Game (42s, 35s)
05-10-2016, 06:43 PM
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RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game
(05-10-2016 06:14 AM)brianddk Wrote:  Light testing using hp41uc (through dosbox) and v41r8.exe as the emulator. Honestly, my impressions are that is likely too slow to realistically play through the simulator. Real HW might be faster.

LOL – have you ever used a real hardware HP41? Man, this was 1979! The 41C was about three times as fast as the 67/97, but still it does not even come close to a contemporary home computer (with 1 MHz at that time). Execution times of one or more minutes are common for iterative math programs (e.g. matrix inversion).

Try a simple program:

Code:
CLX
LBL 01
SIN
SIN
SIN
GTO 01

With a speed setting that comes close to a hardware HP41 this should run with about one loop per second (watch the "flying goose" in the display move).

Yes, the emulator can do it MUCH faster than this. There is a speed setting in the menu and a Turbo mode which is activated by pressing the TAB key. So if you want speed, start your program on V41 and then press TAB. In most cases a short key press is sufficient as the program now has finished within the fraction of a second. ;-)

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RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-05-2016, 11:23 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - Dieter - 05-06-2016, 09:51 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-06-2016, 10:45 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - Dieter - 05-07-2016, 07:37 AM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-07-2016, 07:26 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-07-2016, 08:50 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-08-2016, 05:44 AM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - Dieter - 05-09-2016, 08:11 AM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-09-2016, 01:38 PM
RE: (42s) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-09-2016, 11:12 AM
RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-10-2016, 01:27 PM
RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game - Dieter - 05-10-2016 06:43 PM
RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-10-2016, 07:19 PM
RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game - Dieter - 05-10-2016, 08:43 PM
RE: (41cx) Mancala Board Game - brianddk - 05-10-2016, 09:22 PM



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