SATURN BASIC for HP-48G/G+/GX, HP-49G and HP-49G+/50G

[pier4r]

So, upping an old thread (about a very good work)

I make it public as maybe someone else wants to chime in on the same point.

From this post
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-103...l#pid92955

to this page
http://www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu/emu71/index.html#sforth

to this page
http://www.hrastprogrammer.com/hp71x/

to this page
http://www.hrastprogrammer.com/emulators.htm

From here learning that a lot of work of hrast programmer is not free (and mostly out of my budget). It is ok, but I can read about it, since it seems well done. Plus I like the idea of posting the mail as image,

to this link
http://www.hrastprogrammer.com/hrastbas/HRAST_BASIC.pdf

Now I address the Thread starter.

Quote:This is the culmination of my work as far as HP/calculator
development is concerned and I [...] Those
facts make me even more proud and happy!

I think that everyone that does a similar amount of work should (must) be proud of it. Indeed you even ask for a transaction, and that is good.

But then you say

Quote:Of course, this will be largely ignored by the community (if you don't
understand something than just ignore [...]) and I won't
never get any credits for this achievement [...]

I disagree with this. I agree that when people don't understand something (or the work needed for a result) then they cannot even cherish the person that did the work, exactly because they don't see it. But this happens, one should be prepared for it or should do marketing to inform the others how difficult was to produce the result. Expecting that people that are not interested become interested overnight is source of frustration.

Then I also think that many appreciate you work or would like to be able to do the same, even just in term of self discipline to follow through. At least I do. The problem is that due to the 1-9-90 rule many appreciate but without exposing the appreciation. If there would be "likes" maybe it would be more obvious. Like on reddit, there are post with 18000 likes and 2 comments, because people don't want to comment like "yeah, well done" (I do, indeed see my post count). But also, still on reddit, cat pictures are way more trendy than calculators, math or science submissions.

All this to say: kudos for the work and maybe it would help to think that many may appreciate your work without saying it.