New firmware for the Swissmicros DM15L

[Johnp_g]

(09-16-2024 03:19 PM)jebedeo Wrote:  The 0 was indeed being ignored during a program, nice catch!

John, STO and RCL need to be terminated with ENTER on purpose. It's a behavior from the hp42, and the reason is that we have 99 registers so more than one digit is needed. Also, if you make a mistake while picking the register, you can just press the <- button.

Thanks for the quick update!

I haven't had a chance to try this version yet, but I'm amazed at how quickly you've fixed the first bugs.

Regarding the STO/RCL behaviour - I don't have a genuine HP42 but my DM42, and Free42 itself, don't require ENTER for two digit registers, they terminate after the second digit. The ENTER can be used to terminate a single digit register number (rather than explicitly typing a leading ZERO).

The DM41X (and therefore I presume the HP41CX etc) need both digits (and no ENTER).

I agree that your method allows for correction of a mis-typed second digit for the register address and that might be quite a valuable feature, but it's going to take practice to remember to press ENTER each time when you're used to "STO nn" (even when the first n = zero)

It might be worth the new muscle memory, for the other benefits, of course! :-)

I'm going to try this version later today, when I get back home. I'm particularly glad about the Complex number handling/display. I'll try some programming with complex numbers later, should be fun!

Cheers,

John