PRIME TIME

[manjo]

Hello all :-)

yes, not realy new to HP calculators but new to this forum :-)

ofcourse i was thinking... app saturn emulator is what we need,
To make it 100% compatible to 50G is very tricky and maybe not worth the trouble. BUT to make it more like a "hybrid" like emu48 on Windows machines. (to run the modified ROM) compatible on Saturn(+) CPU but no ARM compatibility would be just fine and would be Debug4X compatible.

When thinking about Saturn Vritual machine... I would not look to make it compatible, rather to "evolve" or further develop in the direction what Saturn processor would be if made today with both ARM and x86 archtectures in mind.
Such virtual machine would run efficiently on ARM as well as x86.

Something similar and VERY interesting is the RPL/2 project
http://www.rpl2.net/

Saturn had a very god run for years and the whole plafrom is about to run out of everything... address space, display space, etc...

The basics of saturn is what I love (64-bitness but with nice subfields and nibble operable, both hex and dec mode etc)

two data pointers seam fine to me, but make it 32 bit or 64 bit even so that memory would not be an issue ever again, byte addressing instead of nibble.
in this giant memoryspace all kind of hardware could be represented in their respective memory windows and so on...