Well, that means that I don't have to port Aspirin to 68k, because someone has already written it...

By the way, that is still not 100% back on-topic, but any idea why Aspirin and Bloxorz both use transparent shapes rather than sprites? Is it because LuaZM has no sprite support?
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It has sprite support, but the reason I didn't use them was:

1. I don't know how I would compress the sprites, and it probably would be slow, since it would not be built-in. Also, these sprites are very large. on a b&w calc you can get away with 8x8 sprites, but on this its more like 20x20. So sprite data gets very big, very fast. And there is a limit of how large the lua file can be.

2. I sort of like the retro look. However, when the new version of luazm comes out, i am planning on using filled circles.

Quote from: DJ_O on February 25, 2013, 03:32:08 pm

By the way, that is still not 100% back on-topic, but any idea why Aspirin and Bloxorz both use transparent shapes rather than sprites? Is it because LuaZM has no sprite support?

Also I made a video of the game

Wait, port of popular TI-89 game?

Yeah, I didn't know about it until after I released this. Mine was based on the fx9860 version.

Well, we have fast sprite support.

But it would be nice to be able to change the sprite's resolution, so an 8x8 doesn't look like a dot. May be I should write a routine for that and put it in a lib.

Wait 8x8 sprites are scaled down to 1x1 dots by default?

8x8 are 8 dots by 8 dots. I don't know about you, but too many of those will start straining my eyes...

ONTOPIC:

Casimo has made a port of this in C for fx9860 calculators. It is compatible with the power graphic 2 models.

http://casio.clrhome.org/2013/03/aspirin-for-fx.html

Oh ok lol. And yeah for such calc 16x16 is necessary. It's also very standard on consoles like the NES, SNES, Game Boy and GBA.

Also will the 9860G version run on older models too?

9860G? isnt that the oldest 9860?

There's no 9860 at all. It starts straight at 9860G and it's the first one (with no backlight screen and no string support). It can be upgraded to have every 9860GII function except backlighting, though. There are 3 version of the 9860G: The 9860G, the 9860GII and the new 9860GII Power Graphics 2 model that won't run most old programs.

OK, the wording of your previous post confused me.

Yes, Casimo's aspirin port will run on all 9860 series calcs.