SpeedUI v20.05 on 48GX in 2024

[JDW]

As some of you may have read in my other thread, my 128K FRAM card recently died, or so I thought, and Meta Kernel got wiped. The upside is that the card seems to be working again after using a heat gun to reflow all the solder joints. This led me to reconsider the advice I received several years ago from many of you who recommended I installed SpeedUI instead. I didn't heed that advice back then because I wanted to try Meta Kernel, and because I was pleased with it, I never tried SpeedUI. All that changed yesterday when I downloaded SpeedUI.

I must say, the documentation (3 different PDFs!) requires multiple reads to make sense, and even then I am left with many questions. Anyone installing it needs to know what the dependency libraries are, and the documentation doesn't make it clear on the first read.

Before sending anything to my real calculator, I decided to give SpeedUI a test on Emu48 running in WINE on my 5K iMac (which works great, by the way). Installing it on Emu48 is so much easier than transferring data to the real calculator over that special USB cable you have to buy. And for you Mac users out there, I use the Hoppi app to initiate the transfers to my real calculator. Using Emu48, I just drag the LIB files to the LCD and bam, they're transferred!

I installed the following libraries in order from the top to bottom:

* CF.LIB (required) (4)
* UF.LIB (809)
* UFLF.LIB (257)
* UI_Full.LIB (805)
* SBUC.LIB (224)
* B0.LIB (176)
* B1.LIB (177)
* B3.LIB (179)
* FC.LIB (128)
* CMD.LIB

I forgot to take note of the library number for CMD.LIB, which raises the the following important question:

Q1: When I have installed libraries, what is the procedure to find out what the library numbers are? Without that info, you cannot DETACH. If if you cannot DETACH, you cannot PURGE! So that is my first question.

My next two questions are as follows:

Q2: I see "FM.LIB" in the v20.05 SpeedUI download, but that is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. I sent a couple PMs to Raymond, but he hasn't replied. Is it even needed? If it is needed, what does it do?

Next...

Q3: When I access the SETUP soft menu and change HDR to "1", it displays this:

{HOME} <1><0B>

But I would prefer to see the date & time instead of <1><0B>. How can I achieve that?

@rprosperi, I believe you still use SpeedUI, so would you know?

Thanks!