Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are emulators for various OSs, but I can't seem to find an rpm download on any that I've ever heard of.
Am I just more clueless in this case than usual? Or more paranoid than necessary? Like, did I skip some site that I'd've been safe on? (I did try a couple stabs with dnf install.)
I must've bought my real 12C sometime between 1987 and 1990, as near as I can recall, and it's still running just fine. The trouble is that I'm such a pack rat. It would help not to carry it too anytime I'm already carrying a perfectly serviceable Fedora machine.
On 1/6/24 13:52, Beartooth wrote:
Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are emulators for various OSs, but I can't seem to find an rpm download on any that I've ever heard of.
Am I just more clueless in this case than usual? Or more paranoid than necessary? Like, did I skip some site that I'd've been safe on? (I did try a couple stabs with dnf install.)
I must've bought my real 12C sometime between 1987 and 1990, as near as I can recall, and it's still running just fine. The trouble is that I'm such a pack rat. It would help not to carry it too anytime I'm already carrying a perfectly serviceable Fedora machine.
Don't know a 12c emulator, but Free42 (free42-3.1.2-1.fc39.x86_64) is a handy HP42s app. I also have Free42 on my AstroSlide Android phone.
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:41:57 -0500, Mark C. Allman via users wrote:
On 1/6/24 13:52, I Beartooth wrote:
Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are emulators for various OSs, but I can't seem to find an rpm download on any that I've ever heard of.
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Don't know a 12c emulator, but Free42 (free42-3.1.2-1.fc39.x86_64) is a handy HP42s app. I also have Free42 on my AstroSlide Android phone.
Looks good, thanks! But the point of the 12C is that it's pre- programmed (if not hard-wired) with a whole lot of tedious financial stuff that I want only to use, not study.
If you commute by public transport, for instance, you can run simulations of real estate and mortgage transactions up the wazoo -- until you *know* how much house you can afford -- in otherwise dead time.
(Actually, I've done that, a couple times, and mean to stay put; but at least two young couples among my friends are at the house-buying stage. I could lend out my 12C, of course, but it also has other uses ...)
On 1/6/24 10:52, Beartooth wrote:
Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are emulators for various OSs, but I can't seem to find an rpm download on any that I've ever heard of.
There's an emulator for many HP calculators including the 12C at: https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/
However, it's very old and it was going to be difficult to compile. Fortunately, someone has forked and updated the build system at: https://sourceforge.net/p/nonpareil-ubuntu/code/ci/master/tree/
I cloned it and was able to compile it. It starts up, but I couldn't test it because I didn't do an actual install to put all the files in the right place. I already had most of the dependencies installed, so I only needed to install "sdl12-compat-devel" and "netpbm-progs" to do the compile.
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