billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) (05/15/91)
HP 48 System RPL Development I am pleased to announce that HP will shortly be making available a set of tools and documentation that will enable development of HP 48 applications written in "system RPL," using IBM PC compatible computers as the development platform. The tools include an RPL compiler plus the supporting Saturn assembler and loader. The documentation includes a description of the RPL language plus descriptions of the ~2000 supported (i.e. frozen addresses) system objects. This material will be provided on an unsupported basis, meaning that you won't be able to call up Customer Support for help. Developers who want more formal support should register with Hewlett-Packard; the only qualification is to be able to show that you are engaged in commercial software development for the HP 48. I am currently reviewing and revising the documentation, after which we will publish the material. I am making this preliminary announcement mostly to let folks who have been struggling with home-brew tool development and trying to understand the HP 48 internals that help is on the way within a couple of weeks. Distribution via the BBS is not practical because of the ~1 Mbyte of files, but we will make it available on an ftp site (registered developers will be mailed a disk).
akcs.kaufman@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Duane Kaufman) (05/15/91)
I was wondering if included in this package will be detailed information
on the Saturn processor instruction set? Such things as clock cyles and
condition flags set for operations could be released in the same
unsupported fashion. If not, might I ask for these things to be inclusded
at the ftp site of choice? Thanks in advance. Just a happy Saturn hacker.
Duane KaufmanIMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) (05/16/91)
billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: > [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>>
akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (05/16/91)
Great, looks I'm going to have to get a PC emulator for my Mac after all.
Any chance of HP coming out with mac versions of these programs?
Please, I'm on my knees, honest.
--Falcobillw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) (05/16/91)
Re: HP 48 development tools for the Mac, etc., first we have to finish the PC versions. Then we'll think about making source code available so that somebody can translate to other platforms. Bill Wickes
APPLEREP@MTUS5.BITNET (05/16/91)
About that HP-48 RPL development tool: PLEASE MAKE ONE FOR THE MAC!!!!!! It doesn't have to be super pretty, or anything, just functional. There are many engineering students here at MTU that own both Macs and HP-48s. I can honestly say that a Mac developent environment would sell at least 10 copies at our bookstore. Especially since our Math department is heavily Mac and HP. Tom Amberg Apple Student Rep Michigan Technological University
akcs.jrchaffer@hpcvbbs.UUCP (J. Richard Chaffer) (05/16/91)
duh.... whats a "ftp" site ????? ???
LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (05/16/91)
In article <91135.164727IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu>, IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) says: > >billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: > >> [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] > >Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? > > - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>> I second the request (on my knees begging now) for the Amiga version! Leif Johnson leif@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) (05/16/91)
In article <25590163@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: >Re: HP 48 development tools for the Mac, etc., first we have to finish >the PC versions. Then we'll think about making source code available >so that somebody can translate to other platforms. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the 48 development work at HP is done on HP9000 series machines. Just in case the PC development tools are actually just being ported from the 9000s: I for one would like to get the originals ... If not, I hope someone will port them to hp-ux. (I might even do it myself, if I can find the time.) Anyway, keep up the good work! -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Mueller) (05/16/91)
In article <91135.164727IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu> IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) writes: >billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: > >> [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] > >Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? > > - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>> I'd like to second that question. I'm sure there are lots of us AMIGA owners that would be interested in this product! Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (05/17/91)
>Re: HP 48 development tools for the Mac, etc., first we have to finish >the PC versions. Then we'll think about making source code available >so that somebody can translate to other platforms. > >Bill Wickes Thank you very much and I sure would be interested in making a Macintosh version if I was given the source code. Programming the mac interface is not hard to do, the only tough part to a mac version of this software would be to convert, or a better word would b modify the code to make it work and work well with the macintosh. --Falco
chris@itc.univie.ac.at (Christian Forst) (05/17/91)
>In article <91135.164727IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu> IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) writes: >>billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: >> >>> [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] >> >>Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? >> And one more question: Will there be a version for the Atari ST? even more please :) Christian +---------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Christian Forst | | | | Phone: +43-1-43-61-41-70 | | gargl, wonz, bazong, zawapp, gurp, | Fax: +43-1-40-28-525 | | schwuppdi, bla, bingo, murx, boink, | Email: chris@itc.univie.ac.at | | zappadong, hau wech, knurps, ... | a8443gae@vm.univie.ac.at | | | A8443GAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET | | No more comments on Disclaimers ... | | +---------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
slassini@convex.cl.msu.edu (lassini stefano) (05/18/91)
LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: >In article <91135.164727IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu>, IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew >Smith) says: >> >>billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: >> >>> [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] >> >>Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? >> >> - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>> >I second the request (on my knees begging now) for the Amiga version! >Leif Johnson leif@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu I'd Love to see an amiga version of this package too! I volunteer my spare time [not much] to do the porting, if the folks at HP will be so kind to supply a C source. Stefano Lassini slassini@convex.cl.msu.edu
jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) (05/19/91)
In article <2832f360:3101.9comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes: >>Re: HP 48 development tools for the Mac, etc., first we have to finish >>the PC versions. Then we'll think about making source code available >>so that somebody can translate to other platforms. >> >>Bill Wickes > >Thank you very much and I sure would be interested in making a Macintosh >version if I was given the source code. Programming the mac interface is >not hard to do, the only tough part to a mac version of this software >would be to convert, or a better word would b modify the code to make it >work and work well with the macintosh. > > --Falco Put me in for an Amiga port -- |_o_o|\\ |. o.| || The Jay Denebeim | . | || Software | o | || Distillery | |// Address: UUCP: mcnc.org!deepthot.uucp!jay ====== Internet: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us BBS:(919)-460-7430 VOICE:(919)-460-6934
lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri) (05/20/91)
LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: >In article <91135.164727IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu>, IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew >Smith) says: >> >>billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes) writes: >> >>> [Stuff about a program for the IBM to do Saturn development] >> >>Question: Will there be a version for the Amiga? Please? >> >> - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>> >I second the request (on my knees begging now) for the Amiga version! Maybe someone could volunteer to do a "port" of this for the Amiga. I was the person who did the port of USRLIB to the Amiga, and I am very grateful to Mr. Wickes and H.P. Corvallis for this. Whoever is willing should ask Mr. Wickes about this possibility. I *would* volunteer myself, but I cannot this time because I am moving to Europe in approx. 2 weeks and I have sold my Amiga ;-( So it is up to the rest of you hp48sx/Amiga users out there to do this program! .oO Chris Oo. -- Christopher Lishka 608-262-4485 It is not safe out here. It is wonderous, Wisconsin State Lab. of Hygiene with treasures to satiate desires both lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu subtle and gross. But it is not for the uunet!uwvax!uwslh!lishka timid. -- Q
TEKNIKUM.MIKAEL-BERGKVIST@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Mikael_b@cmaja.uu.se) (05/24/91)
Yes please, a Mac version would be much appreciated Mikael_b '