I wish Casio would have chosen the more standard 320x240 (QVGA) for the LCD.

edit: Staples makes graphing calculators?

The more powerful they get, the more boring they become .

Quote from: Ranman on October 10, 2010, 03:04:47 am

I wish Casio would have chosen the more standard 320x240 (QVGA) for the LCD.

Then it could be a gameboy advance emulator   Then again, I would be much happier if it had an SDK, otherwise what is the point?  I want to MAKE games, not just PLAY them.  I also want to make a new oop programming language, which I started on the ti8x calcs, but I might make it for this as an alternative to ASM and casio-basic

In that case, I would really need a lot of help, as I know z80 asm really well but have no idea what the microprocessor for this calc is ...

Again, I really think this site is amazing!  I can't believe how active it is for a programming forum!

Welcome to Omnimaga, by the way- I missed your earlier post.

If the chip is modern enough (read- not 30+ years old like the z80 and 68k), there would be no need for a new OOP language because C++ could be ported directly. (The Nspire, for instance, could easily support C++ once all the libraries get ported).

And the Casio Classpad's official SDK was a C++ compiler. Maybe the Prizm's will be as well...

Hopefully the CPU on this will be decent-porting DOOM would be awesome

The more powerful they get, the more boring they become .

True, but it is not great if you can't even do anything at all on a device, though (or when almost nobody can play your games). Some power is welcome, but yeah, it's cool when it's a bit limited, still, since it makes our stuff look more like an achievement.

Quote from: tr1p1ea on October 10, 2010, 08:24:10 am

The more powerful they get, the more boring they become .

True, but it is not great if you can't even do anything at all on a device, though (or when almost nobody can play your games). Some power is welcome, but yeah, it's cool when it's a bit limited, still, since it makes our stuff look more like an achievement.

Very, very true. This is why greyscale games are held in such high esteem (altough they are a bit more trivial now thanks to axe ). However the achievements for this calc maybe very obvious as well, how about stepping up from 2D to 3D? and if the proccesor is powerful enough why not implent a fully functional physics system? maybe even make a on-calc 'gamemaker(http://www.yoyogames.com)' tool? All I am trying to say is that there is still plenty to achieve even on a calc as powerful as this one. From what I see from the video the GUI could use a makeover I personally find it very ugly...

I can't wait to get my hands on to this calc moreover because I never got the balls of casio's programming languages...I hope they support some sort of C or maybe python like language...

Well for now we do not have calc-specific sub-forums. For example, C language is for 68K, TI-Nspire and z88dk (83+).  Later I may add a sub-forum for the new calc languages, though, if it gets too cluttered.