HP 50g+ Emulator

[Skyblues]

Greetings,

As discussed in the post "Emulator of HP 50g with #2.16 ROM", Hewlett-Packard released an HP-50G emulator that uses ROM version 2.16. I don't know what's different in v2.16 (if anything).

I absolutely love one of the background images used by that emulator. Unfortunately, the problem I discovered with HP's emulator (using ROM version 2.16) was with that I can't load libraries (or, at least, I couldn't figure out how). Without the ability to use libraries, an emulator is worthless to me.

I liked the image so much, I decided to use it and create my own custom emulator. I used the standard 50g ROM image, ROMG+.50G. I have called this emulator HP 50G+.

To create my own version, I started with the HP background image, touched it up to my liking in Lightroom and then used Photoshop to add the annunciator images.

I used Emu48.exe v1.5.3.0 which I believe is the latest.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to write a kml file. It's pretty confusing at first. I read the KML_20 document which was helpful but still left me a bit confused. I reviewed many of the currently available kml files that others have written for HP emulators which helped a lot.

Kudos to the following who's work helped me the most:
1) The Real HP-50g by Grokwik and
2) The Real 50G by Eric Rechlin

I'm sure there are better ways to accomplish what I set out to accomplish but with my limited knowledge, I created two emulator kml files and bitmaps. One uses the lighter LCD used by Grokwik and the other a darker LCD used by Eric Rechlin.

I'm pretty happy with the results so far. If anyone wants to try it out, let me know and I'll PM you the link where the files are located.

I have included two *.e49 files; one for each emulator. This may be unnecessary, I'm not sure. I believe they hold the libraries (which I have also included). I have also included the original bitmap supplied by HP.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how to make it better, please let me know.

Best regards,
Jim