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From: Christoph Giesselink on 21 Apr 2008 13:37
It's now 10 years ago, on April 21th, 1998 I published my first update for
Sebastien Carlier's Emu48 emulator. The publishing address
http://privat.swol.de/ChristophGiesselink/ still exists but it's now only a
forwarder to my actual homepage at http://hp.giesselink.com. At that time I
called the updates "Unofficial" because they weren't "authorized" by
Sebastien Carlier. The latest "official" version of Emu48 by him was v1.10,
which was in fact my "Unofficial Emu48 Update SP10". I can't remember any
more when I removed the word "unofficial" from my new version announcements.
When you want to know more about the Emu48 history, visit
http://hp.giesselink.com/10ann48.htm please. I just added a small part for
the time from 2000 until now.

To celebrate this day I published Emu48 v1.47 for Windows PC's. Version
v1.47 also mean that I published 47 versions in the last 10 year, 4.7
updates per year. But when you have watched the Emu48 development in the
last years, you may recognized that the updates came out less frequently.
This is of course a result that the emulation of these now old calculators
is very stable. So Emu48 v1.47 contain only some minor bug fixes over
version v1.46.

But since 2004 I distribute an Emu48 version for ARM based Windows Mobile
devices. Here I made the biggest changes. First of all, Emu48 for Pocket PC
v1.16 now also supports packet ROM images for the HP49G emulation. In
combination with all other packed ROM images and RLE coded KML script
bitmaps this safes a lot of memory on the PDA. One side effect of the new
HP49G ROM image loader is, that the loader is over one second faster than
the old one. Also the Pocket PC version got a small manual, which isn't
complete, but it's a beginning. But the biggest change I done, Emu48 for
Pocket PC is now also available in an installer version! The times of
installing Emu48CE first, manual installing of Emu48 for Pocket PC and
patching the KML scripts has gone. The new installer contain most of the KML
scripts of the Emu48CE version, I only removed a few one, and added some
newer which had been available separately.

I hope you enjoy the new Emu48 emulator versions, and perhaps we can
celebrate some other Emu48 anniversaries in future.

Best Regards,

Christoph Giesselink

maintainer of the Emu48 for Windows project


From: Raymond Del Tondo on 21 Apr 2008 14:53
Congrats for the Anniversary,
and many thanks for the extraordinary work!

You made this beast usable at all,
and one of the most valuable tools
for me and many other HP-48 enthusiasts!

Best Regards

Raymond

And no, we don't forget that S. Carlier
initially invented Emu48 (or Win48?),
but you re-invented it, and actually
made it usable at all. Before you took over,
it was simply a non-usable design study.


From: margueta on 6 May 2008 15:10
hi i'm abig fan of hp 48 this piece of arte make a great help for me
through colege, now my 15 year old daughter is beginig to use it so i
passed on to her, because now i use this great emulator on my pda
phone. thank you so very much for it.
on another mater i recently aquiere a new wm6 pda phone and im having
problems installing it, i tried to install the emulator several times
but for some reason it just won't work.
please need some help.
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