Buenos noches.
So, thanks to Mark @M5TEA I fell down the rabbit hole of calculators (again). I do love a good calc.
Anyway. I couldn’t stop fiddling with Mark’s FX-870P emulator (insert euphemism / Kenneth Williams’ ooh matron! gifs here). So much so that I decided to try and 50/50 vibe-code a piece of software for it.
I put together a little Ham2k PoLo-esque (but nowhere near as good as PoLo!) program for the calculator which could log QSO’s. More importantly, you could then export your logbook to *.csv to convert to *.adi or whatever you want.
I call this technological marvel…
JAMONCITO FX!
(literally Beef Shank FX, but anyway 
).
I have the gubbins of it done now and it’s relatively bug free. I wrote about how it works, the features etc on my blog (shameless plug but saves regurgitating here) along with some snazzy screenshots to ‘whet the aul whistle’!
Anyway. Thank you Mark for the brilliant emulator and all your hard work. Also to the original version authors too of course. My software will be FOSS and available once I have the last few bits worked out.
I am hoping folks may download it, pull it apart, improve it, optimise it and whatever else you can think of. If anyone has one of these calculators, I would dearly love one to try this on real hardware - even just to see it running live would be fantastic fun. I’d use it for an activation attempt!
Anyway. I hope you like this bit of fun. Nothing serious, just a ‘why not?’ moment that popped in my mind. Full info and details of features is here:
Thanks all. Toodlepip!