Free42x - HP-IL extensions to Free42

[jch]

(11-06-2016 12:54 PM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  

(11-06-2016 12:00 PM)jch Wrote:  Because Free42 is a re-implementation, free and source code is available whereas go41c is an emulation of HP41 hardware and AFAIK the source code is closed.

I hear you. I know Olivier de Smet quite well, if you ask him nicely he may open his code for that

Re-implementation vs emulation leads to two differences :
1) Though both could share some low-level I/O's, HP-IL state machine implementation will be deeply different as, AFAIK, in 41C it is split between part hardware part software.
2) Most Free42x functions are already available in modules for HP-41C. I had a lot of fun rewriting them and expanding the possibilities. Of course, this is has been done and is always doable in the 41C's world, but from a user point of view, you'll need either a real 41C[VXL] or the Go41cx edition.

I'm ready to share about HP-IL eXtensions, but be aware that this is only a free time occupation.
I'm still struggling with the Bluetooth part, some issues do not occur in debug mode.
Classical schema, I'll have to log more things for troubleshooting, hoping that these additions will not hide the problem !

Cheers. Jean-Christophe