HP Looks into Plans to Publish the
HP-42S ROM Online
Friday 12th of March 2004
In response to a request to publish the HP-42S ROMs online at
www.hp42s.com - Gene Vicino (Marketing Programs Manager, HP) writes:
I have received the following
information:
1) The HP legal department has
notified us that we cannot authorize others to distribute this type of
HP copyrighted material (intellectual property) on their website.
2) However, in order to help our
valued users, we are looking into plans to make the 42s ROM available
(with an appropriate license) on the HP calculator site in a special
"developers" section. Currently there is no confirmation or date
designated for this project. We will keep you informed.
This would among other things simplify the process of sharing
Emu42 state-files among different users. As these state-file are
dependent on the ROM revision they were created from this would make it
be possible for users of Emu42 to use one common ROM image and share
state-files built using this image.