HP48 emulator for X11/Linux

Installation, version 0.6.4, 2011

1. Download the x48-0.6.4-2011-11-15-berlios.tar.gz. This is from a now defunct project that was previously hosted on the server of berlios.de.
2. Follow the instructions file INSTALL.linux.txt after unpacking the tar.gz file
3. Use one of the below rom images from version 0.4.0

Installation, version 0.4.0, 2003

1. Download the x48-0.4.0.tar.gz and unpack it.
2. x48 is a very old program but it works fault free also on new Linux systems (as of 2003 ;-). You need however to patch the file timer.c and add the line "#include <time.h>":

   --- timer.c.orig
   +++ timer.c
   @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sys/time.h>
   +#include <time.h>
    
    #include "timer.h"
    #include "debugger.h"
   

3. After that compile (xmkmf and make)
4. I got some errors that it could note generate man-pages. This is however normal since there is no man-page for the x48. At the point where you get this error the compilation is already done.
5. Now unpack one of the ROM images in your home directory: x48-gxrom-r.tar.gz (for hp48gx) or x48-sxrom-e.tar.gz (for hp48gx). This creates a .hp48 directory with the rom inside. Alternatively you could also download the pure rom images (gxrom-r.zip or sxrom-e.zip) and follow the instructions in the README from the x48-0.4.0.tar.gz package. The pure rom images will not create the .hp48 directory.
   
   Note that the rom images are copyright HP. HP does however since they have stopped the production allow the download of those images.
6. After installation of the rom images you can just start the hp48 emulator (the file x48 in the bin directory).

Documentation

Usage