Aside from the Prizm, Casio rarely gets any facetime around here at Omnimaga.  Most of the earlier calcs don't even have a powerful enough Basic Language to create games like (some) TI calcs have.  The Casio fx-9860 is Casio's second newest calculator after the Prism, and actually has a very nice platform for developing games.  It has a form of Basic just like the Prism (although a little faster) and Assembly accessed through Add-ins.  This video tribute shows that while we may be primarily a TI site, TI does not rule exclusively when it comes to games:



There are just as many diverse games as you could find on TiCalc.  There are 3D games such as wolfenstein and PongoBall, there are physics based games such as Pool and Indestructo Tank, there are the classic arcade games such as pacman and space invaders, there is even a pokemon clone, as well as a city simulating game.

Clearly, Casio is a powerful competitor to the TI game industry, despite their somewhat less known games in our circles here.   The topic on Caso Kingdom for this video can be found here http://casiokingdom.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1751 and many other projects and threads can be found elsewhere on the same site.

I wish on the 9860G there was something like Axe Parser, it would really rule. Some of these games are great. The reason why there aren't as many Casio games as on TI is because TI has a monopoly and Casio BASIC is much slower than TI-BASIC.

After all, the FX-9860G has a 29 MHz processor which can be clocked up. It's just that the community is so small that there are fewer people interested into hacking these calcs or creating even cooler stuff. The only time the Casio community seemed to have higher activity than the TI community was in 2008.

Indeed. That said it seems that SimonLothar on Casiokingdom is very dedicated into hacking the Prizm and 9860G, so maybe he could help a lot.

Now I wish that could have some sort of snowball effect and spread accross schools.

For sure I'll stick to BASIC unless Axe comes out for the prizm, though, and programmable on-calc.

Added fx-9860g emulator to the long list of Prizm software yet to be written. but Actually that shouldn't be too bad to program.

I thought in the 9860gii series it was controlled by a manual switch...
I wouldn't know, though.  My "9860" is actually a hacked 9750 so it doesn't have a backlight
Hopefully anything having to do with the backlight wouldn't crash it or something...
Oh well.  Got a good price on it

EDIT by posting this, I grow out of 'evilness' yay

Looks like they got a lot of talented programmers over there. I remember 4nic8 was quite the programmer too, just a lack of participation over on the casio stuff.

Yeah I remember him, Deimos too. Too bad EPS forums were so buggy, if they were fixed along with the server issues people wouldn't have left (except maybe 4nic8 who lost interest in calcs). Deimos made several cool MLC games for the Algebra FX series. Also an example of great AFX ASM game is Shadow World.

On a side note the AFX is another cool calc for ASM games, since it supports add-ins too. However, its BASIC is even slower than the old Casio calcs and the Prizm, ASM isn't as fast as on the 9860G and the Flash chip in these calcs is so cheap that they break after 3 or 4 years.

Also somebody else made a new Casio vid, but it mostly showcases the same games as the previous one: