[NTLK] Enhancements to the reverse engineered newton system

[Daniel Parnell]

The bug fixes are up on github now. Claude did a heap of small commits 
and also did the fixes in such a way as to allow the bugs to be restored 
at compile time.

As for SDL3 it should be possible to make a new host using it to make 
porting easier. My real interest is to have it running well on the 
Remarkable Paper Pro. Currently everything is working reasonably well 
there, but the hand writing recognition is really flakey there (more so 
than I remember on the real device)

On 6/10/2026 9:57 pm, Matthias Melcher wrote:
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>> On 6. Oct 2026, at 06:24, Daniel Parnell <me at danielparnell.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Everyone,
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>>    I have just pushed up the first enhancement to the reverse engineered Newton ROM.
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>> I added a palm style single stroke handwriting recognition system to it. It seems to work ok and I am looking into adding other more modern hand writing recognition systems in at some stage in the future.
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>> Currently I have Claude going through and producing a version of the code with all known bugs in the ROM fixed. It should be interesting to see what it comes up with :)
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> Thanks for your continued efforts on the Newton Source code.
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> When you get to the point where you fix bugs, it is helpful if you can make one commit per bug, or group of bugs. This would help a lot if we ever get around to fixing the actual ROM.
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> If you don't what to reinvent the wheel when porting to various platforms, SDL3 offers a media layer that runs on many devices and OSs. It abstracts screen output, settings files, audio, pen input, touch, and much more, so you write once and can compile right away for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, RaspberryPi, and more.
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>   - Matthias
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> https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-platforms
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