Plus42 Pricing and documentation

[Thomas Okken]

Of course Plus42 can work with the DM42 keyboard (*). I've said so myself, on numerous occasions, and I point it out every single time someone asks me about running Plus42 on the DM42. I honestly don't know how many more times I have to say it!

What I have also said, but apparently also have to keep repeating until kingdom come, is that I would love to see Plus42 run on the DM42. And that I am not going to do such a port myself, but would be open to collaborating with someone who knows their way around with development for the DM42.

/rant off

The reason I'm not going to do a Plus42 port to the DM42 myself should be obvious: it's going to be a lot of work. You can't simply take the DM42 patches for Free42 and apply them to Plus42. The internals have tons of differences, and the display logic in particular is very different. And Plus42 uses STL, which adds significant size to the executable. Will it still fit? I don't know. How useful will all the Plus42 extensions be in the limited RAM of the DM42? I don't know. What if there turn out to be weird crashes that are caused by quirks in the DM42 hardware or OS? I don't know.

The only way I would consider taking the lead on such a project would be if I could get paid for it, and that seems highly unlikely, or at least not an amount that would make it worth my while.

I think it makes much more sense for me to stick to what I actually know how to do, and enjoy doing.

(*) In fact, Plus42 can even work with the 37-key HP-42S layout. It can be used with all the Free42 skins in my collection, and you can get an idea how it could work on the DM42 by running it with the DM42 skin.