Paul Courbis
{{short description|French programmer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor, aka Paul Courbis (born 3 November 1967), is a French programmer, mostly known for reverse engineering the HP-28 and then the HP 48 series of calculators, and writing multiple articles and books disclosing his findings. These books had a surprising success in France.
Very soon, a team of enthusiasts formed, gathering around Maubert Electronic, a small electronics shop in Paris' Latin Quarter, and developing a large number of utilities and games (one of the most impressing one was Pac-Man for the 48, one of the first programs using the hardware scrolling device of the 48). Most of these programs are still available and can be traced back to the original reverse-engineering published by Paul Courbis.
Paul Courbis was the chief information officer at the French Ordre National des Médecins, he is also working during his spare time on a set of tools to help people administrating Alcatel's PABX (for the 4400 series). He also publishes various tricks (iPhone, shells scripts, etc.) on his web site.
Bibliography
His main books are available as paperprints on Amazon[https://www.amazon.com/author/courbis Author's page on Amazon] but are still available on-line for free:
- {{cite book |title=Voyage au centre de la HP28c/s |author-first1=Paul |author-last1=Courbis |author-link1=Paul Courbis |author-first2=Sébastien |author-last2=Lalande |language=French |publisher=Editions de la Règle à Calcul |publication-place=Paris, France |edition=2 |date=2006-06-27 |orig-year=1989 |oclc=636072913 |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article17 |access-date=2015-09-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806084555/http://www.courbis.fr/Voyage-au-centre-de-la-HP28-c-s,17.html |archive-date=2016-08-06}} [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_001_063.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_064_113.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_114_163.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_164_213.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_214_263.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage28/Voyage28_72x72_264_285.pdf]
- {{cite book |title=HP48 Machine Language - A Journey to the Center of the HP 48s/sx |author-first1=Paul |author-last1=Courbis |author-link1=Paul Courbis |author-first2=Sébastien |author-last2=Lalande |translator-first=Douglas R. |translator-last=Cannon |publisher=Grapevine Publications, Inc. |publication-place=Corvallis, Oregon, USA |edition=2nd |date=2006-06-25 |orig-year=1993 |oclc=34148948 |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article21 |access-date=2015-09-06 }} [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_001_062.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_063_121.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_122_157.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_158_210.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_211_330.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/hp48ml/hp48ml_72x72_331_397.pdf]
- {{cite book |title=Voyage au centre de la HP48 s/sx |author-first1=Paul |author-last1=Courbis |author-link1=Paul Courbis |author-first2=Sébastien |author-last2=Lalande |language=French |edition=3rd |version=3.02 |date=2006-06-25 |orig-year=1991 |publisher=Editions Angkor |publication-place=Paris, France |isbn=2-87892-003-1 |oclc=29438911 |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article20 |access-date=2015-09-06 }} [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/PDFS/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_001_060.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_061_130.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_131_218.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_219_276.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_277_318.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_319_374.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48s/Voyage48s_72x72_375_428.pdf]
- {{cite book |title=Voyage au centre de la HP48 g/gx |author-first=Paul |author-last=Courbis |author-link1=Paul Courbis |language=French |edition=3rd |version=3.05 |date=2006-06-25 |orig-year=1993 |publisher=Editions Angkor |publication-place=Paris, France |isbn=2-87892-006-6 |oclc=29640044 |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article18 |access-date=2015-09-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806140746/http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=hp48;id=100;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecourbis%2Efr%2FVoyage%2Dau%2Dcentre%2Dde%2Dla%2DHP48%2Dg%2Dgx%2C18%2Ehtml |archive-date=2016-08-06}} [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_001_056.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_057_106.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_107_156.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_157_206.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_207_256.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_257_306.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_307_356.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_357_406.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_407_456.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_457_506.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_507_556.pdf] [http://www.courbis.fr/Data/Books/Pdfs_72/Voyage48g/Voyage48g_72x72_557_608.pdf]
- {{cite book |title=Le compagnon de Voyage de la HP48 G/GX |author-first1=Paul |author-last1=Courbis |author-link1=Paul Courbis |author-first2=Cyrille |author-last2=de Brébisson |author-link2=Cyrille de Brébisson |language=French |date=March 1994 |publisher=Editions Angkor |publication-place=Paris, France |isbn=2-87892-007-4 |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article19 |access-date=2015-09-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806135932/http://www.courbis.fr/Le-compagnon-de-voyage-de-la-HP48.html |archive-date=2016-08-06}} [http://www.lmet.fr/GSWeb/lmet.gswa/9/dr/CSHOPDirectAccess/search?baseListID=searchModel&searchType=searchByAll&resultsPageName=&resultsDisplayTemplateID=&searchedText=2-87892-007-4]
- {{cite book |title=Dictionnaire des changements de noms - Autorisations par décrets en France - 2010-2020 |author-first=Paul |author-last=Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor|author-link1=Paul Courbis |language=French |orig-year=2021|publisher=Patrice du Puy |isbn=979-10-90452-40-4 |oclc= }}
- {{cite web |author-first=Paul |author-last=Courbis |author-link=Paul Courbis |title=Published articles |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article4}}
Other works
= Published works =
- A HP 48 {{cite web |url=http://www.courbis.fr/spip.php?article82 |title=emulator/decompiler |postscript=none}} running on Unix/X11 and used for automatizing the understanding of the 48G internals;
- Courbis is also the conceptor of the website of the first French computer bookstore on the Internet: {{cite web |title=Le Monde en Tique |url=http://www.lmet.fr}}
- {{cite web |title=Alca-Line |url=http://www.alca-line.com |postscript=,}} a set of tools to help people administrating an Alcatel 4400 PABX (website in construction)
- The {{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc#SMoVCA_5AS4/hal-gk-2007-01-12/lib/check.c&q=paul%20courbis |title=HTTP filtering module |postscript=none}} for the {{cite web |url=http://software.inl.fr/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/HAL-GK |title=Hybrid Application Layer GateKeeper |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20070205221853/http://software.inl.fr/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/HAL-GK |archivedate=2007-02-05 }}
- Some modules for sybtcl: {{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc#FbLBmiJYaiA/bin/sp_who&q=paul%20courbis |title=sp_who |postscript=none}} and {{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=3&ct=rc#5rOSD2NbagY/sybtcl-2.5/samples/sybmon&q=paul%20courbis |title=sybmon}}
= Unpublished works =
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.hpcalc.org/best.php HP calculator software library]
- [http://www.hp-network.com/interviews/interview4/interview4.php Interview of Paul Courbis] (in French)
- [http://www.maubert.com/ Maubert Electronique]
- [http://www.courbis.fr Paul Courbis web site] (in French)
- [https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Goodspeed Travis Goodspeed's lecture about "Voyage au centre de la HP28C/S" during the Defcon 16 conference (August 2008)] - ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b8M1J3xknQ video])
- {{LinkedIn URL|https://www.linkedin.com/in/courbis}}
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