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From: johnson@saturn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.hp
Subject: Re: need help on HP150 with touch-screen
Message-ID: <2273@saturn.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 11:10:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: saturn.2273
Posted: Tue Aug  7 11:10:31 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:31:35 EDT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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Almost any MS-DOS application that doesn't do anything fancy with the
display should run on an HP 150.  This includes virtually all compilers,
but alas excludes most editors.

I believe the entire Microsoft line of languages is available.  I know
many people who use the Lattice C compiler.  I personally use and prefer
the CiC86 C compiler from:
	Computer Innovations, Inc.
	980 Shrewbury Ave. #310
	Tinton, NJ 07724
	201/542-5920
I don't recall off-hand the price; somewhere around $400, I think.  I've
used this compiler for several years now, on an HP 150, an IBM PC, and
(in my innocent youth) on an S-100 CP/M 80-86 system.

If you're serious about writing software that uses the HP 150's touchscreen,
graphics, keyboard extensions, etc., I strongly suggest you purchase the
"HP 150 AGIOS Library" from:
	Micro Techniques, Inc.
	2001 E. Prairie Cir. #B
	Olathe, KS 66062
	913/764-1342
The cost is $100 postpaid--and well worth the money.  It is a library of
about 100 CiC86-callable routines for controlling the unique features of
the HP 150.  This library also contains windowing routines that provide
a higher-level interface to the HP 150 display than is supported by the
hardware.

In the way of diversions (my nonserious uses of the HP 150 are minimal),
I recommend "Winning Deal", a collection of about half a dozen card games.
The interesting feature of these games (which HP sells directly for about
$40; product number 92248CA) is that they can be played EXCLUSIVELY with
the softkeys and touchscreen.  The author suggests that skeptics disconnect
the keyboard before playing.  (Like all HP 150 software that I've seen,
however, use of the touchscreen is not manadatory.  You can also turn off
the touchscreen and use the keyboard exclusively.)

DISCLAIMER:  I have no financial interest in any of the companies
mentioned above (other than HP, of course).  I am writing as an
HP 150 user (home computerist).  The fact that I also work for
Hewlett-Packard is irrelevant.
-- 
Mark Scott Johnson
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