Any suggestions for a fully-functional portable calculator? I'm looking for one like Excalibur (with the same, or better range of functions). I was devastated when I found out that it wasn't portable.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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A good idea, I'll get on that.
-Justin
I use this small RPN calculator on my drive. It's extremely simple and doesn't have the feature of Excalibur, but works well. The layout is similar to the HP48 series of calculators.
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/rpncalc.zip (just unzip to your drive and run the executable)
It has a weird interface, you have to enter both numbers before doing the operation? I guess I'm not used to that type. I still want to find one that is comparable to the Calculator in Windows.
-Justin
It's different because it's a RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. You don't enter the arguments like you would on a normal non-RPN calculator.
It's hard to get used to at first, but I've been using an HP RPN calculator for 10 years now, and feel lost on a normal calc.
I guess you get used to it.
-Justin
I have been using aller calc for quite a long time. It has everything I need for work. But, it is not entirely portable: the calc history is saved in the program directory but the setting is in registry.
Maybe this one..
http://members.tripod.com/~plamentd/downloads.html
I use the TI emulator so I have the full power of a TI calculator, which I'm use to using. Just install and copy the exe file and the rom files and any other files in that directory.
If you need a graphing calculator, I'd recommend GraphCalc. GraphCalc is an open source graphing calculator that does just about everything (including 3-D graphs!). I run it off a network drive at my college. I would assume it would run just fine off a flash drive. There is an option to tell it where to save your history. It saves everytime you close - or you can turn that off as well. It is available for Windows and for Linux. Source code is available.
www.graphcalc.com
I've reviewed GraphCalc and all you have to do to make it Portable is run it and then quit. You'll then see a "graphcalc.ini" in the application path. Open that and change the file setting to ".\default.gcl" . This will effectively load and save the settings to default.gcl in the application directory.
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Just had a look at this (after i'd suddenly realised you originally posted this Jan 06). Has there been a revision since as this seems to correspond with what you said - no manual changes necessary from what i can see - or am i wrong!
thanks (from a maths teacher - this is a great find!)
[Settings]
file=g:\portableapps\graphcalc\default.gcl
savesettings=1
[WindowRect]
left=193
right=831
top=134
bottom=606
You should change the settings path as Rob Loach suggested.
Otherwise you'll have an absolute path and it will mess things up if you come across a PC witch gives you a different drive letter.
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