ra1fh / nonpareil-0.79

Nonpareil is a microcode-level simulator for electronic calculators written by Eric Smith

Nonpareil Simulator for Electronic Calculators

Nonpareil is a microcode-level simulator for electronic calculators written by Eric Smith and published at https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/

This repository contains some modifications compared to nonpareil-0.79:

• The build system has been replaced with CMake 3
• Some correctness and compilation fixes
• ROMs are not included and will be downloaded during the build.

Currently it is able to simulate some of the HP calculators introduced between 1972 and 1982:

• HP-35, HP-45, HP-55, HP-80
• HP-21, HP-25,
• HP-31E, HP-33C, HP-34C, HP-37E, HP-38E, HP-38C
• HP-41CV, HP-41CX

Build Requirements

• CMake >= 3.11
• GTK+-2
• SDL 1.2
• bison >= 3.0
• flex
• libpng
• libxml2

Tested Operating Systems

• Debian GNU/Linux
• Fedora
• OpenBSD (amd64, macppc, sparc64)
• Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Ubuntu (20.04 and 22.04)
• Windows

Installing Build Dependencies

Debian, Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu

sudo apt install bison cmake flex git libfl-dev \
     libgtk2.0-dev libpng-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxml2-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install bison cmake flex git gtk2-devel \
     libfl-devel libpng-devel libxml2-devel sdl12-compat-devel

OpenBSD

doas pkg_add bison cmake git gtk+2 libxml png sdl

Windows

Windows 11 Build 22000 or later has X11/Wayland support in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Setup WSL, install an Ubuntu container and follow the Ubuntu instructions.

Compilation and Installation

git clone https://github.com/ra1fh/nonpareil.git
mkdir -p nonpareil-build
cd nonpareil-build
cmake ../nonpareil
make
sudo make install

Usage

• Invoke nonpareil from the command line and select a calculator model by loading a KML file
• Or: use one of the alias commands that preselect a KML file: 21, 25, 32e, 33c, 34c, 35, 37e, 38c, 38e, 41cv, 41cx, 45, 55, 80

usage: nonpareil [options...] kmlfile
options:
   --shape (default)
   --noshape
   --kmldebug
   --kmldump
   --scancodedebug
   --nostate
   --trace
   --stop