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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #120 on: October 10, 2010, 03:35:45 pm »
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...


I don't think CasPython would be a very good choice. Python is already a slow language even on massively more powerful computers. A small calculator isn't a good platform for an interpreted language. Just look at TI-BASIC.

Anyway, with a better processor (and more memory), someone could build a music player. No more TI-84+ quality sound. We can move up to $5 drugstore player sound!

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #121 on: October 10, 2010, 03:59:31 pm »
correct but I was more reffering to the ease of use of python versus the (compiled) complexity of C-like languages
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #122 on: October 10, 2010, 04:01:07 pm »
yeah, but maybe it would be cool if you could interpret it to see how a program works then compile it for full speed?

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #123 on: October 10, 2010, 04:39:16 pm »
BASIC isn't slow at all on Nspires, though. Just depends on what proc the Prizm's gonna use.




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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #124 on: October 10, 2010, 07:16:42 pm »
very true, and if you look at the code for the BASIc parser, they interpret it in such a way that it wastes many thousands of T states, so a custom interpreter like BBC basic showed that faster interpreted languages could be done.

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #125 on: October 10, 2010, 07:31:21 pm »
well, TI better start getting to work!

They have really screwed up

I assume casio did this to get us nspire-infuriated people on their side...

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #126 on: October 10, 2010, 08:34:42 pm »
I think this is the very first calc with a 16:9 widescreen :)

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #127 on: October 10, 2010, 09:07:24 pm »
I think this is the very first calc with a 16:9 widescreen :)

Lol, true. HDTV, anyone? ;D

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #128 on: October 10, 2010, 09:11:23 pm »
If this thing's gonna have programing capabilities, I am sooo gonna get one.

I think this is the very first calc with a 16:9 widescreen :)

Lol, true. HDTV, anyone? ;D
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #129 on: October 11, 2010, 01:03:44 am »
Sounds good.  It would be pretty awesome if this place supported TI and Casio -- that's a LOT of creative projects coming in ;)
Technically, Omnimaga already supported HP and Casio as well back in 2005-07. Go to the downloads section and check out the RPG section: There are plenty of Casio and HP programs there. However, we failed to attract Casio/HP programmers with this so I pretty much gave up on the idea. To work this time, I think some of us will have to program a bit for the Casio Prizm too, to attract new Casio members.

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...


I don't think CasPython would be a very good choice. Python is already a slow language even on massively more powerful computers. A small calculator isn't a good platform for an interpreted language. Just look at TI-BASIC.

Anyway, with a better processor (and more memory), someone could build a music player. No more TI-84+ quality sound. We can move up to $5 drugstore player sound!

*Amazed at the possibility of porting Black to the Prizm*
It depends, BBC Basic for the 83+ seems to do a pretty good job at speed even if it's interpreted, yet it's for 6 MHz calcs. It's slower than Axe and ASM, though.

BASIC isn't slow at all on Nspires, though.
Except commands that display stuff on the screen:


I think this is the very first calc with a 16:9 widescreen :)
Yeah I think it is, although it is not the first widescreen calc. The TI-85, 86, Casio FX-9850G/9950G/9750G and 9860G series got 2:1 screens of 128x64 pixels.

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #130 on: October 11, 2010, 01:52:45 am »
Widescreen schmidescreen.  ;D

I would rather see QVGA (320x240)... much better for emulating legacy gaming platforms.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #131 on: October 11, 2010, 03:32:36 am »
ASHBAD ALVIN, That would be a great idea, having both TI and Casio topics.
Hopefully the Prizm will have lots of programming capabilities...
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #132 on: October 11, 2010, 06:27:41 am »
well, TI better start getting to work!

The problem is they have forgotten what the word "work" is meaning since 2006...
(2006 is for Nspire prototypes, the last "big" thing they've done... after that , nothing or allmost nothing was done at the software or hardware level for any of their calculators...)
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #133 on: October 11, 2010, 08:12:43 am »
How hard is it for them to make a dumb touchpad to go with their nspire... :(

Ti will have to wake up now or else they are going to lose more than half of their 3rd party developers (who own like 25% of their calcs )

EDIT: okay, maybe 10%ish, but there are still 30% of calc owners who don't program but just download games)
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #134 on: October 11, 2010, 09:17:10 am »
I would say maybe 1%, because there is most likely about 100000 graphing calc owners minimum at once in the world and I have serious doubts there are currently 1000 active calc programmers in the world. On Omnimaga forums, if you check around 11:59 PM on the board index, you'll notice that there are about 90 people logging in every day and we don't even have close to 1000 members anyway. This is why there are little chances that they would listen to the community.
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