HP PDAs & Calc emulators for windows 10

[jonmoore]

Official emulators of the HP-10/11/12/15/16C are no longer distributed but many of them are available for free within a web browser. You're in luck with the 48 RPL series calculators as all the relevant information can be found at https://www.hpcalc.org/

Look for the relevant Emulator categories on that page, and then look for recommended ROMs. They're not distributed together, but all the clues are plainly in sight. Emu48 is generally the emulator most want and that can be used for both 48 and 50g calculators (the 50 and 49 are the same calculator but featured different hardware).

And then you need lots and lots of time to explore all the wonderful applications that you can run on the 48 series calculators.

For the old school RPN classics, head to http://teenix.org/

These emulations aren't as slick as that you get with the RPL era Emu48, but the emulations run accurately. RPN and RPL are very different even though they both feature a stack. RPN is closer to the metal. What I mean by that is that programming with RPN is far closer to assembly programming than with higher level programming languages. For this reason, one of the common assignments you'll encounter in an assembly programming course is to design your own RPN calculator!

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/40-2011f/h...oding.html

It takes a certain mindset, and I don't mind admitting, I've always been more comfortable with RPL than RPN programming - although unformatted RPL listings look like pure gibberish. The Teenix site has plenty of RPN program listings as does https://literature.hpcalc.org/

In many ways, the Teenix site is more convenient for listing as they're available in plain text form, but they're missing the critical commentary you get in the source material books available on the literature section of the hpcalc.org site.

Going back to the university course homework page I linked to. It's worth going through the whole Machine Structure and Assembly-Language Programming course (luckily most of the information you require to follow it is publicly listed).

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/40-2011f/

Take everything I've said with a pinch of salt if you've been using RPN calculators for years and simply wanted a few HP emulator links.