HP Prime or HP 50g

[Jean-Baptiste Boric]

(07-13-2018 12:39 AM)JDW Wrote:  

(07-12-2018 04:35 PM)Jean-Baptiste Boric Wrote:  ...the NumWorks calculator with a couple of hardware mods could theoretically have the guts required to emulate an HP Prime calculator and "run" an early HP Prime firmware ...

So what prevents one from emulating the 50g on a Prime?

1. One would most likely want a port of newRPL for the Prime rather than an emulator of the original 50g firmware on the Prime.
2. There are only a handful of people doing bare-metal development on the HP Prime out there, including myself, and most of us aren't even from of the HP community. Port requests and complains about said ports not happening or just outright contempt about our work won't make those come out any faster. Actually helping us or doing these yourself would.
   

(07-13-2018 12:39 AM)JDW Wrote:  My thinking is, even if you could emulate a 50g or Numworks on a Prime, the KEYS of those respective calculators are so different that you are not giving the user the REAL DEAL experience with your emulation. The same holds true if you were to emulate a Prime or 50g on a NUMWORKS. If the physical keys are radically different, I myself cannot see any meaning to the emulation. Emulating an old OS on a new computer is one thing, but emulating one calculator on another where the keys are different is yet another. I don't see the benefits.

My initial comment about emulating the HP Prime on a modified NumWorks was clearly tongue-in-cheek. Nevertheless, the HP Prime has a keyboard that actually maps fairly well to a NumWorks port. It's not perfect, but with a couple of bugfixes/additional device drivers/modifications to my port the HP Prime would be a better NumWorks calculator than the original NumWorks calculator.