SarahKL

@SarahKL@mastodon.social

user of words & punctuation • intellectual flâneuse • author of "All the Perverse Angels" (rep. by Felicity Bryan Assoc.) • Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure • hauntology, folk horror, electronic music, retrotechnology, photography, etc. in varying amounts

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SarahKL, to retrocomputing

Hey lovely Mastodon folk. I've just released an HP-35, HP-45, HP-80 simulator called HP-1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HP-45 calculator. (Free) standalone versions for Mac and WIndows (no need for any Python installation or knowledge) & Python source for Linux. It's been a coding marathon, so it'd mean a lot to me if you could boost this post, so it gets in front of the right people. Download here: https://sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.html Enjoy.

SarahKL,

@andyh2o Oh, that's interesting. Hmmm. What happens if you rename hp1973_prefs_normal.json to hp1973_prefs.json?

SarahKL,

@stooovie @andyh2o Working on it. Was bound to happen after launching it, and not the multiple times I tried before launching, right?

SarahKL,

@andyh2o @stooovie OK. I think it's fixed. Could you download and try? (If you're still getting a version with the json files visible, then you're downloading from a cache somewhere: should just be the app and a txt file.)

SarahKL,

@stooovie @andyh2o Hooray! That was a tense few minutes!

SarahKL,

@elb Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know: it's been a solitary (if mostly enjoyable) task coding, so knowing that people are enjoying the result is fantastic.

SarahKL,

@jaseg Thanks: I was going for retro-chic. (Also, I couldn't be bothered to teach myself a more modern windowing environment, for now. Shh: don't tell anyone.)

SarahKL,

@nuncio Have fun! I'd start with a standard HP-45 ROM and work through the HP-45 manual: https://literature.hpcalc.org/community/hp45-oh-en.pdf

SarahKL,

@stuartmarks It absolutely simulates things at the ROM level: everything the calculator does is done using its ROM code, including any bugs in the original. And yes, the timer function's all there. It just uses '?' to generate the necessary keycode, rather than a combination of keys: then the ROM code does its thing.

SarahKL,

@sotneStatue I like to think that's the normal effect I have on people.

SarahKL,

@M0CUV I lost track, but definitely 150+. Some of that was spent working through the logic diagrams in patents to get things just right, plus I was learning the details of Python/numpy/tkinter/nuitka... as I went.

SarahKL,

@gsuberland Thank you. It went through a lot of iterations but the overall 'look' didn't change much. I wanted something that echoed the look of the originals, with a general 1973 aesthetic (although I slipped some later references into the themes).

SarahKL, to keyboard

Absolutely not-paid-for post, but if anyone's looking for a new mechanical keyboard I can recommend 'The Keyboard Company'. They were really helpful before I bought my Keychron K2 Pro: verified the key colours in stock (which can vary on that model), confirmed the backlight colour, double-checked I wanted a US layout, etc. And delivery was quick, too. Anyway, the service was good enough to warrant my telling others, so here we are. https://www.keyboardco.com/
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