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Jurgen Keller · 02-25-2019, 07:26 PM

(02-25-2019 03:26 AM)derekamos Wrote: Good luck getting a whole ROM up & running, or even a bank switched set!
X<>Y gets lots easier when just calling 12FCh, but I get the point of your first effort example.
Do you have a future ROM project that is driving you? if so we would love to hear about it.

Thank you for your good wishes, I'm sure there will be some occasions where I'm in need of positive words to keep going on :-)

The main driver is currently just curiosity. The HP-41 is my favorite HP calc and I just want to delve deeper into its architecture. However, I have some concrete project ideas but it's too early to discuss them.

The purpose of the first step and the sample project on Github was just to build a convenient development environment and set up the toolchain. I just copied the sample source files from well known sources and didn't actually care about the contents. Anyway, I'm sure I will need the expertise of you and other MCODErs at some point because there is not that much documentation available.

The next step is most probably to make syntax highlighting work for MCODE in my text editor (TextMate). The reason is that from my daily work as software engineer I'm just so used to this visual help that simple black-on-white code looks somehow annoying to me. It also seems a good exercise to get an overview of the instruction classes and to carefully read through the SDK41 manual.

Another HP-41 enthusiast living near me just told me that he is also interested to get into MCODE. So we decided to make our first MCODE hackathon on March 15. Together it's definitely more fun and maybe more productive and less frustrating.