From: Paolo Cipollone on
Hi all,

I've been recently trying to run the HP-41E emulator on my 50G.

It seems to run fine -the emulated 41 even accepts synthetic
instructions-, but in program mode it does weird things. If I try to
enter a line more than 5 or 6 characters long, I get at the fifth or
sixth place a 6 and the line stops there.

I tried to run the emulator directly from the SD card, from the Home
directory through the VAR menu, all to no avail. That is, the emulator
starts perfectly, the 41 works fine in 'direct' mode, but not in
program mode.
Since I am new to both the 41 and the 50 I am probably doing something
wrong. Any help?

Thanks in advance,
Paolo Cipollone
From: datajerk on
> I tried to run the emulator directly from the SD card, from the Home
> directory through the VAR menu, all to no avail. That is, the emulator
> starts perfectly, the 41 works fine in 'direct' mode, but not in
> program mode.
> Since I am new to both the 41 and the 50 I am probably doing something
> wrong. Any help?

To run from SD card put HP41EA or whatever on SD, then create a small
UserRPL script to run it:

<<:3:HP41EA EVAL>>

For programming I use my PC. I compile to RAW with HP41UC, then load
up the RAM image with RAW41, then copy that to my 50g current (not SD)
directory.
From: brad.barton on
On Jan 2, 9:36 am, Paolo Cipollone <maoline...(a)tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been recently trying to run the HP-41E emulator on my 50G.
>
> It seems to run fine -the emulated 41 even accepts synthetic
> instructions-, but in program mode it does weird things. If I try to
> enter a line more than 5 or 6 characters long, I get at the fifth or
> sixth place a 6 and the line stops there.
>
I can't help you much with running the emulator, but the 41 only
accepts 6 character text strings; presumably because that's the
maximum size of each memory register. If you want to construct longer
strings simply add the smaller strings together. Concatenation is the
50 cent word for it (or .25 Euro I guess).

The HP museum sells a DVD with lots of HP stuff on it, including most
of the user manuals, which has the excellent manuals for the 41
series. Here are some links.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp41.htm
http://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm


From: Paolo Cipollone on
> I can't help you much with running the emulator, but the 41 only
> accepts 6 character text strings; presumably because that's the
> maximum size of each memory register.  If you want to construct longer
> strings simply add the smaller strings together.  Concatenation is the
> 50 cent word for it (or .25 Euro I guess).
>
> The HP museum sells a DVD with lots of HP stuff on it, including most
> of the user manuals, which has the excellent manuals for the 41
> series.  Here are some links.
>
> http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp41.htmhttp://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm

Thank you very much for the reply, but I am not *that* new to the
41 :-)

What we are talking about here is this: the emulator runs perfectly
(the emulated 41 even accepts synthetic instructons, runs the infamous
'forensic' and other accuracy benchmarks as expected), but if I enter
program mode and enter a real number, after five or six digits (it's
not random, it's just that I don't have the calc here at work) I get a
6 and no possibility to go further in the line. I checked of course
the behavior of V41 and there everything is OK.
Actually, since I am thinking to get a real 41, I want to give it a
try.
Anyone experienced the same things?

Thanks in advance,
Paolo Cipollone
From: datajerk on
On Jan 4, 12:54 am, Paolo Cipollone <maoline...(a)tiscali.it> wrote:
> > I can't help you much with running the emulator, but the 41 only
> > accepts 6 character text strings; presumably because that's the
> > maximum size of each memory register. If you want to construct longer
> > strings simply add the smaller strings together. Concatenation is the
> > 50 cent word for it (or .25 Euro I guess).
>
> > The HP museum sells a DVD with lots of HP stuff on it, including most
> > of the user manuals, which has the excellent manuals for the 41
> > series. Here are some links.
>
> >http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp41.htmhttp://www.hpmuseum.org/cd/cddesc.htm
>
> Thank you very much for the reply, but I am not *that* new to the
> 41 :-)
>
> What we are talking about here is this: the emulator runs perfectly
> (the emulated 41 even accepts synthetic instructons, runs the infamous
> 'forensic' and other accuracy benchmarks as expected), but if I enter
> program mode and enter a real number, after five or six digits (it's
> not random, it's just that I don't have the calc here at work) I get a
> 6 and no possibility to go further in the line. I checked of course
> the behavior of V41 and there everything is OK.
> Actually, since I am thinking to get a real 41, I want to give it a
> try.
> Anyone experienced the same things?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paolo Cipollone

I have the same problem. Its most likely a bug with 41E. I would
suggest that you program offline and compile with HP41UC /RAW41 and
then transfer to the 50g. Or, pay for the 41X and get support.