Extended emulator of МК 61/54 vs MaximaOnAndroid
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Extended emulator of МК 61/54
МК 61 was the best seller of all USSR programmable calculators of 1980-s (B3-34, MK-54, MK-56, MK-61, MK-52). Calculators are emulated on microcode level so they behave exactly like the original devices, including all non-documented features and inaccurate calculations. For ease of use application features saving and loading emulation states. This app's emulation engine Java code is based on C++ source of Felix Lazarev's emu145 project. Emulation was highly optimized for speed and should run in real time on any phone. It's an extended version of the original emulator МК 61/54 by Stanislav Borutsky (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cax.pmk). This version allows to export/import programs from external files and contains some UI improvements. Hint 0: you can found the list of all tips in the About dialog Hint 1: touch calculator's indicator to toggle slow/fast mode. Indicator's blinking looks better in slow mode. Hint 2: you can choose between MK-61 and MK-54 using menu option that becomes visible when calculator is switched off. Hint 3: with the menu "Import" you can import programs from external files, several such programs you can find in https://xvadim.github.io/xbasoft/pmk/pmk.html Hit 4: you can open menu by long tap on the "Вкл" label.
MaximaOnAndroid
Maxima, a full featured computer algebra system, now runs on your Android mobile devices. Maxima, and its predecessor Macsyma is one of the most long-established software in the world, back in 1960s at MIT LCS and Project Mac. You can perform many many math operations such as integration, differentiation, matrix operations, rational numbers, symbolic treatment of constants such as pi, e, euler's gamma, symbolic and numerical treatment of special functions such as sin(x), cos(x), log(x), exp(x), zeta(s), and many more. Maxima on Android is a port of Maxima on the Android operating system. Thanks to Sylvain Ageneau' effort on porting Embeddable Common Lisp to the Android OS, the latest Maxima code runs nicely on ECL on Android with very small changes to the source code. The installation of the software requires total of 90MB on the storage. 30MB needs to be installed on the internal storage. The rest of 60MB can be installed either on the external or the internal storage. The first run of the apk will ask you where you want the 60MB to be installed.
| Feature | Extended emulator of МК 61/54 | MaximaOnAndroid |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | CalculatorProductivity | CalculatorProductivity |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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