35s program checksums

[Thomas Radtke]

(04-01-2015 01:22 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  The problem really isn't that HP chose not to fix the problems. They signed a contract with Kinpo that forbids any changes to the ROM. HP doesn't own the code used in the 35s, Kinpo does.

There are several stories about this. If I'm not mistaken, one HP engineer has had a look at the machine code and commented it was to difficult to work on it (source was likely Assembler, as one member speculated after disassembling the emulator code).

I take it as a fact that there were contracts to develop the 33s, to fix some bugs and finally to develop the 35s firmware based on this code (both machines share some bugs). If all this was possible, there should be a way to contact Kinpo again about fixing the known bugs.

Likely, the 35s sells too well. But hey, there are no true bugs ... all just glitches and misunderstandings ... *rolleyes*