Nonpareil status

[Mark H. Shin]

Hello Eric!

Let me introduce my self...

I am the developer of an "ancient" emulator of the 12C, named "HP-12C Financial Emulator" circa 1995. This was developed on Windows 3.1 using VB 3.0! Its still available for download (minimum requirements: Windows XP) on the other Eric's website. Although, that submission was missing very important aspect of the original distribution-- installation setup program, the segmented font, and the all important MSAFINX.DLL (date functions). But I digress...

I have been currently studying your Nonpareil code, and specifically that of Maciej Bartosiak's MacOS code for MacOS platform.

Of course it is good news of your renewed, ongoing research...

Please be advised the following is only a "what if" scenario...

Have you looked into the Electron development platform? I do realize this may be a non trivial undertaking, but there are currently mature utilities that can ease the conversion of C code to JS.

Imagine each calculator platform simulator residing in a single JS file. Then each calculator user interface would be a single HTML page, able to handle the user interface utilizing standard HTML/CSS/JS.

In this scenario, Nonpareil would be cross-platform to virtually all platforms which support Electron.

I believe your original goal was this, but the cross-platforms tools of the time were lacking..

Regards.