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Courtesy of Eric Rechlin of hpcalc.org, now you can watch a fat ugly guy who says "um" far too often, at HHC 2025 talking about and demonstrating the forthcoming Nonpareil II microcode-level simulation of various HP RPN calculators (currently HP-15C and HP-16C):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eraikEonaJQ

The audience really liked that the graphics is fully scalable, rather than only having integer multiple scaling of a bitmap, in the original Nonpareil.

#hhc2025 #Nonpareil2 #rpn #calculator #microcode

HHC 2025: Scalable Reptoids from the Outer Reaches (Nonpareil II Updates) (Eric Smith)

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🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Jan 12, 2024

I compiled #Nonpareil2 (in development) with clang, and it produced all of the same errors as Apple's Xcode clang on macos, other than Apple's libc++ missing std::format. It took some time to figure out what the issue was with each of them, but I've got them all solved.
Since clang finds a lot of issues that gcc lets past, maybe I should do most of my development builds with clang.

🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Jan 4, 2024

I've made a bit more #nonpareil2 progress:
I initially built the simulator and user interface portions separately, as I was experimenting with separate architectural tradeoffs for each. Now I'm working toward the middle, which has involved a few minor architectural changes on both sides.
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