Hallo allemaal, > Now my question: is there anybody here who knows more of the ins and > outs of these polynomes? Thinking things over I realized that the question may be was not complete. I should have added: "as used in the various Commodores". And for Michał: thank you for you answers! Already the first one gave me a kick to look at the problem from another angle. For Olaf: When knowing the various tricks, converting is simple. My FP numbers are 128 bits: 16 for the extension and 80 for the mantissa. Maybe a huge overkill but it is simpler to scale down then start with single precision = 32 bits and the have to scale up. My format also allows me to handle up to 19 characters in a number like 1234567890.987654321. I started with programming the conversions in Pascal and then translating the source into assembly. Sources are free of course. Today I also had a very nice day. A year ago in Belgium a man died who was a computer collector. His son and daughter had nothing with computers and decided to donate the whole collection to the Homecomputer Museum in Helmond (NL). They collected a lot and still there was a lot left like Wang servers and various Digital equipment. Here is a link before we raided the barn: https://youtu.be/yoWB9ePcgUs Unfortunately no Commodores except two printers (just popped up: maybe already collected). I had opted for an ETAP 4200 (01:30) but someone had opted earlier. OTOH, I have scored the Aster, the computer you see before you start up the video and at 08:51. It is a Dutch made Z80. I also scored a programmer (04:12), three PCs: 05:56, the one with the yellow memo (8088) and the two at the right 80286s. TI/99 at 06:29 and the grey box at 06:44. It is a Philips laptop D33 or rebranded Olivetti D33 (or the other way around ???). Bondwell 14 at 06:53 and a Philips Videowriter at 10:22. Never seen and it looks like a printer with a screen, keyboard and floppy drive. Nobody wanted it so I took it home. As last I scored a Kaypro 4. Not to be seen on the video so nobody opted for it. I'm afraid I'm a bit busy for some time :) If you wonder why I opted for the ETAP (= word processor, nothing else)? I didn't know it and I wanted something weird. But the guy that collected it already had an older type so he was really motivated to get it. And that Videowriter is weird enough as well. -- Kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Ruud Baltissen www.Baltissen.orgReceived on 2022-09-24 17:00:26
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