Does anyone remember x48? It's an HP48 CPU emulator. It used to be packaged for debian, but was orphaned. In order to do any emulation it needs a ROM, which you can download from your HP48 over the serial line. You can also get ROMs from [1]. "HP graciously began allowing this to be downloaded in mid-2000." [1] I don't know exactly what this means by way of copyright and/or license, and I have emailed the webmaster of hpcalc.org to see if he knows any more details. I imagine ROMs won't be distributable. x48 itself is under the GPL. x48 hasn't been maintained for about 4 years now, and didn't work very well on modern processors when I picked up the source (timing issues). But Eddie Dost, the original author, has graciously worked with me to get those issues resolved and it now works like a charm. So my question is, is there a problem with creating a package for a fine but mostly-unmaintained piece of software that does its job, when I myself have minimal familiarity with the code (or the HP48 processor itself)? -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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