Sunday News on the venerable 41 field, to somebody's surprise still happening these days...
After wrestling for a while with the NEXT1 and NEXT2 MCODE routines I've added a couple of ideas to the SandMath module, which you could call " funtion launchers".
The first one is HYP, a prefix-like function used to access the six hyperbolics functions on the module. It has a more logical keyboard layout, assigned to the SIGMA+ key it saves 5 key assignments, valuable to allocate other functions from the same rom to the keyboard. Hate it or love it, it works great and was great fun to programm.
The second one is RCL#, an extension to the native RCL function that allows the arithmetic functions to be invoked from the keyboard in a convenient manner. It mimics the STO user interface, so you can key in +,-,*,/ and also supports IND addressing. Try it out for size... It's also a launcher in that it'll transfer the execution to one of the module's RCL_Math four functions, or to the mainframe RCL.
Coming soon to a TOS near you...
Edited: 18 Oct 2009, 7:54 a.m.