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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.