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(03-10-2017 06:23 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  Now, what's the rationale behind the display arrangement having large font XY at the bottom and small font XYZT on top like in the demo??

I'd rather have XYZT in large font and end of the story (perhaps plus small font L).

Hope it's configurable.... anyone knows?

I suspect it's the answer to some questions I've been wondering since I first saw the giant display on it. How is PIXEL going to work with the larger display? Will I be able to have a 3+ line alpha register? Will I be able to call up a virtual printer output as in other versions of Free42? etc.

Looks like the answer is that there's a "virtual" 2 line display at the bottom that works just like you'd expect from an HP 42s, and the lines above are just a dump of the stack contents. I'm guessing this is because Free42 is pretty well tied to the original's 2 line dot-matrix display.

Now, will there be extensions to the calculator's original functionality that allow use of the extra screen real estate? We can hope...