Starting HP25 programs with numbers

[Dieter]

(11-24-2017 11:18 PM)PANAMATIK Wrote:  I already integrated your wonderful patch for the HP-29C PAUSE interruption, and I think I should also use this patch for the HP-25 emulation, if you allow.

Please don't. One of the advantages of your emulators is their (almost) exact representation of the original device. If now the one or other "bugfix" or "improvement" is applied they no longer match the original calculator. Without your emulator I would never have found out the "special behaviour" of the HP25 which lead to this thread.

If you really want to do it, please set up a separate modified version that includes such fixes. And while we're at it: what about a "speed mode" and/or a "double memory mode" then? I recently wrote a ~400 step program for the HP67 that has to be run on another emulator. If you don't like the idea: this may have to get activated by a "secret" key sequence. ;-)

Dieter