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- From: bobc@natinst.com (Bob Conyne)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: a flight simulator for my hp48sx
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.150358.14487@natinst.com>
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- References: <1992Aug30.182928.15319@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <STEVEV.92Aug31112659@miser.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:03:58 GMT
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- >frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
- >
- > I've been meaning to post this for some time but I keep forgetting it's
- > simply something that's been on my wish list for a long time.
- >
- > If anyone out there wants a fun challenge and to impress people just
- > whip up a flight simulator for the hp48. It's certainly capable of
- > the task as I remember playing with my first flight simulator on an
- > Apple II+ with 32 or 64K of RAM and it only ran at 1 Mhz. A flight
- > simulator would be something I'd be willing to fork a few of my hard earned
- > buck for. Anyone want to take the challenge?
- >
- > ian
- >
- >We'd need a good graphics library with polygon fill capability to
- >do this.
- >
- >I have also considered writing a flight simulator, mostly because
- >I made a (highly informal) bet with a friend that it could be
- >done. In fact, I think an HP 48 flight simulator could have a
- >better frame rate than one for the Apple II--the screen has fewer
- >pixels and the processor is better at arithmetic.
-
- I have been considering undertaking this (rather daunting) task. I did a 3D
- graphics program for my master's thesis, so I think my technical skills are
- up to it (if a bit rusty). The biggest hurdle I see is in finding an
- assembler for the 48 that is up to the task (unless I'm missing something,
- Jan Brittenson's MLDL allows you to examine, but not create, ML code). Is
- there a consensus in the 48 community on the best assembler available for
- writing 48 ML programs? I vaguely recall something called "asm48" on one of
- EduCALC's goodies disks, but I don't know how complete it was. Any comments/
- suggestions?
-