This morning I was trying to figure out why Nonpareil isn’t coming anywhere close to simulating the HP-67 correctly. It comes up with a single decimal point lit in the display, and the only visible responses to the keyboard are for the decimal point to move to another position or disappear.
So I captured an [...]

Thanks to some help from HrastProgrammer, the HP-11C and HP-16C are now fully functional in the Nonpareil simulator. The display annunciators don’t work yet, but everything else seems fine.
Recently I’ve mostly been working on improvements to the simulation infrastructure. I’ve now got working code to save the state of any simulated calculator to a [...]

On Advogato, groom wrote:
System V’s init runs sequetially from 00foo to 99bar in each runlevel (1,2,3,4,5,6 in linux). And it is long. I wonder if it could be (yes it could) possible to extend init to handle 2 more types of daemons : xxFFbar (fire and forget) and xxPPfoo (Parallel in sequence xx). thus [...]

I put together a crude register display window using the pseudo-reflection API I described previously. It uses a GtkTable with two columns, with GtkLabels in the left colum for the register names, and GtkEntry fields in the right column. I set the text width of the GtkEntry fields to the maximum number of [...]