Campaign for Emu42 (& Emu48 for
Pocket PC) successful!
Thursday 26th of August 2004
Today the
Campaign for Emu42! (&
Emu48 for Pocket PC) run by www.hp42s.com managed to pass the
700 EUR level! This means that Emu42 for Windows and Pocket PC as well
as the new port of Emu48 for PocketPC will now be publically released.
What would otherwise have been a huge wastage - if Emu42 was never to
be released - has thanks to all contributors to the campaign now been
avoided! As Emu42 is developed under the GNU General Public License
both binaries and source code will be released. The source code will
most likely prove to be a
useful resource for anyone that in the future attempts to write an
emulator of the
HP-42S for any other device, e.g. the Palm OS, Linux and so on. The
public release of Emu42 also
opens up a new chapter in the history of the HP-42S. Even though there
is no sign of intention from HP to put the HP-42S back in production
again, it now lives on in emulated format.
The campaign still goes on for anyone that wants to express his/her
support for Christoph Giesselink's work and has not yet done so!