G2 Emulator

[Jean-Baptiste Boric]

(09-15-2022 09:19 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  What will this do that the HP Prime Virtual Calculator doesn't already do? Is it really an advantage for Prime users to emulate the hardware? I'm not trying to be facetious or knock all your hard work. I'd really like to know.

There are several practical reasons besides plain ol' fun. That being said, given the availability of the HP Prime Virtual Calculator and the lack of native third-party applications support, this is not something that most casual users will care about, unlike a TI-83 Premium CE emulator for example. As-is, I expect that this will be useful mostly for people that either port third-party operating systems to the HP Prime G2, develop firmware for it (whether official or third-party) or want to reverse-engineer the calculator.

Maybe if you want to develop HP PPL or Python programs on a computer, but with an accurate simulation of the physical calculator's memory, storage and speed constraints (if the emulator is accurate enough) would a "vanilla" user want to use this, but that's stretching it a bit.

This reminds me of the QEMU-based HP Prime G1 I used to co-develop (https://github.com/opcod3/qemuPrime). IIRC it could run the official firmware, but the biggest issue was the undocumented, proprietary touch chip. Kinda hard to pass the unlock widget on first boot without that, although very early alpha releases lacked it.