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Heya and welcome to the forums! Unfortunately, as far as HP Prime hacking goes, it's pretty much dead. Nobody will ever hack the HP Prime because nobody seems interested in doing it for a platform that has less than a million users in the world Even TI-Nspire hacking is dead, although there are a few games still coming out every now and then. No more Ndless development nor anything else, and that's with a much more popular (although more closed) platform. It took three years until ASM arrives on the Nspire too. Same for the Casio PRIZM, but again, hacking it is no longer as needed, since Casio has done nothing to block third-party ASM/C code.For the next few years, we'll have to stick to HP PPL language (although that's already quite fast enough for the time being, since it's compiled).On a better note, apparently it was discovered not so long ago that the HP Prime pretty much lacks any viable protection against third-party OSes. In other words, someone could disassemble the HP Prime OS then modify it to add a LaunchASM() command that runs ARM assembly or C programs. He could even write his own OS or make such mod avaialble as IPS patch to avoid getting in trouble by releasing an OS containing copyrighted content.Besides that, if you or anyone else knows enough ARM assembly, hacking and stuff, they are well welcome to help finding other alternatives. Of course, keep in mind that in the future, HP might release OS updates that could unintentionally (or if they're like TI, intentionally) block ASM exploits.
It breaks file transfer between the emulator and calc,
Well I bought the Prime because I was a huge fan of my two 48 that I used to program in asm (I loved Saturn asm, Jazz was so cool). But I lost them some years ago when a fire started in my flat. I don't have the real machine yet (should be here in the next few days), but I played a while with the simulator. At first, I must say I was a little disappointed. A lot of cool feature of the 48 are gone, RPN is not half as practical as it was, and RPL miss me a lot. The filesystem (sort of) that used to manage objects and variables too. It was just excellent.
Ouch, that sucks about the fire. >.<And yeah, the reason why a lot of 48 features are gone is because the HP Prime was aimed at a completely different userbase than the older models. Instead of engineers/professionals, it was aimed towards students for the most part, and in the past, I often heard younger students complain about how confusing and hard RPN/RPL are, so forcing RPN/SysRPL upon them with no option to use algebraic mode and a Basic/Pascal-like language would have turned them away. The same thing happened with the 83+/84+ when FastRPL language came out: It showed big promises for programmers who wanted to program fast games without having to learn ASM, but to know FastRPL, you needed some ASM knowledge (the stack, for example). Now look at how popular Axe Parser is.
If you liked the HP48 and want a faster machine with a larger display and much more expandability, why not consider an HP50G? You can program in RPL, SystemRPL, Saturn Assembly, ARM, or C (via HPGCC). As for Jazz, yeah it was very cool -- and still is. I updated it to the HP50G and it is much more robust now.http://users.ju.edu/hduong/jazz
The 50g OS adapted for the screen (res and colors), installable as an app on the Prime, and a good C/asm dk for the ARM, you have the ultimatest pro/students/hackers calc ever :p
.. Let's hope they have a Prime now ^^
Quote.. Let's hope they have a Prime now ^^I wonder, are they still working for HP?
@Han: wow thanks for such a comprehensive answer!
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