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Monthly Archives: January 2004
CASMSIM using KML files
Yet another alpha release of CASMSIM, 0.16. This one uses KML files (language developed for Emu48, with a few minor extenions) tell the simulator what ROM and graphic images to use, where the display and keys are positioned within the … Continue reading
Posted in Calculators, Nonpareil
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Alpha release of GTK+-based CASMSIM
The first alpha release of the GTK+ based version of CASMSIM is now available. For now it only simulates the HP-45, but the HP-35 and HP-55 will be added back in soon. Added a menubar, although most of the menu … Continue reading
Posted in Calculators, Computing, Nonpareil
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CASMSIM; GTK+; threads
Couldn’t seep again last night, so I hacked on CASMSIM some more. I hope this doesn’t get to be a habit. I like hacking in my spare time, but I don’t normally consider the time I want to spend sleeping … Continue reading
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The Amber Spyglass; More
Finished reading The Amber Spyglass a few nights ago. That’s the final volume of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy. Highly recommended! I recently received the DVD I’d orderd of the short animated film More. The package it arrived … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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CASMSIM; HP-35 microcode; GTK+
I couldn’t sleep on Sunday night, so I hacked on CASMSIM a bit. That’s my microcode-level simulator for first-generation HP calculators; currently it simulates the HP-35, HP-45, and (mostly) HP-55. It’s written in C and uses Xlib for display. Dave … Continue reading
Posted in Calculators, Linux, Nonpareil
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WREC in action; Subversion
At last night’s meeting of the PDP-1 Restoration Project, we actually used WREC to reform four capacitors out of two of the Type 728 power supplies. In the process I found and fixed a few minor bugs. I need to … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, PDP-1 Restoration Project, WREC
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WREC and real-time graphing
Started looking at adding real-time graphing to WREC. The most obvious choices appear to be the gtkplot component of the GtkExtra library, or Guppi. Guppi development seems to be stalled, and I didn’t see any example code or documentation describing … Continue reading
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WREC
A preliminary release of WREC is now available. There’s a tarball on the web page, and a link to information about the subversion source code repository. WREC Reforms Electrolytic Capacitors using an SCPI-programmable power supply. WREC was written for use … Continue reading
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caption decoder
Got to work on the caption decoder a bit more today after all. It’s now basically working, though I may have to tweak the demodulation code a bit. Or maybe not; the errors we’re seeing may just be the result … Continue reading
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Memento; Bad Boys 2
After hearing friends talking it up, Rich bought the DVD of “Memento” and we watched it last night. Pretty strange! I’ll definitely have to watch it again. It seemed to end too soon, though, as it was still unclear what … Continue reading
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