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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #90 on: October 09, 2010, 11:29:16 pm »
What is the menu layout for the soft keys btw?

A soft-key menu can have up to six items, but the sixth item will always, always be an arrow to move to another menu.  Just like 3x3 menus, you can use hotkeys and arrow keys.  The first 5 item hotkeys are the soft keys, and the 6th item (which I would have liked to have a 6th soft key for) will have up/down arrows for the hotkey, since they are not needed for soft-key menus

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #91 on: October 09, 2010, 11:41:46 pm »
I just noticed something: SIX SOFT KEYS!  Goodness me, S.A.D. would have been awesome for this.  That lack of a 6th soft-key on the Ti-83+ is really handicapping my soft-key menus.

I didn't notice that. So it's kind of like the HP calcs, which also have six soft keys.

One thing that would have been cool is if they had arranged the alpha keys like the HPs do, so that you can still enter numbers without switching out of alpha-lock.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #92 on: October 09, 2010, 11:45:40 pm »
I attempted to send a message to them about asm, the form they had for asking questions just gave me an error `-`

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #93 on: October 10, 2010, 12:00:11 am »
What is the menu layout for the soft keys btw?

A soft-key menu can have up to six items, but the sixth item will always, always be an arrow to move to another menu.  Just like 3x3 menus, you can use hotkeys and arrow keys.  The first 5 item hotkeys are the soft keys, and the 6th item (which I would have liked to have a 6th soft key for) will have up/down arrows for the hotkey, since they are not needed for soft-key menus
Oh I meant in S.A.D :P

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #94 on: October 10, 2010, 12:32:56 am »
I just noticed something: SIX SOFT KEYS!  Goodness me, S.A.D. would have been awesome for this.  That lack of a 6th soft-key on the Ti-83+ is really handicapping my soft-key menus.

You need exactly 6 keys?

Maybe we could start porting stuff to the Casio calc!

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #95 on: October 10, 2010, 12:40:22 am »
Weird; in middle school, several years ago, I expected that eventually we'd have full-color calculators by high school, and, not out of high school, we have them!
Depending on whether the thing will have 3rd-party ASM/C dev abilities, I might highly consider getting one, no regrets. Of course, if I do, I'll be getting the non-American version. (This is due to the picture issue mentioned above.)
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #96 on: October 10, 2010, 12:51:20 am »
What is the menu layout for the soft keys btw?

A soft-key menu can have up to six items, but the sixth item will always, always be an arrow to move to another menu.  Just like 3x3 menus, you can use hotkeys and arrow keys.  The first 5 item hotkeys are the soft keys, and the 6th item (which I would have liked to have a 6th soft key for) will have up/down arrows for the hotkey, since they are not needed for soft-key menus
Oh I meant in S.A.D :P

Oh, sorry, that's what I'm talking about.  You should check out the latest screenshot again :)

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #97 on: October 10, 2010, 12:58:16 am »
any pricing figures yet?
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #98 on: October 10, 2010, 12:59:06 am »
Yep, cheaper than the Nspire at $129.99 USD ;D
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #99 on: October 10, 2010, 01:03:03 am »
Even if the Casio does only basic programming, I'm sure it will be much better than Ti-Nspire basic

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #100 on: October 10, 2010, 01:04:41 am »
Even if the Casio does only basic programming, I'm sure it will be much better than Ti-Nspire basic
That is very sad. TI better get their hands out of their pants and get busy.
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #101 on: October 10, 2010, 01:06:05 am »
r u serious? 129.99 USD!!!! that makes the Ti-nspire such a ripoff!!! That's like even cheaper than as cheap as the 9860 and the TI-89 titanium used to be! Wow! Casio's pretty generous...
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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #102 on: October 10, 2010, 01:07:50 am »
r u serious? 129.99 USD!!!! that makes the Ti-nspire such a ripoff!!! That's like as cheap as the 9860 and the TI-89 titanium used to be! Wow! Casio's pretty generous...

Generous?  Yes. Insane?  No. Color PDAs can run that cheap given the same specifications.  Agreed, the Nspire is just a ripoff to make money for TI.

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #103 on: October 10, 2010, 01:12:08 am »
Given that this would be the most powerful graphing calculator around, it's inevitable that the price will not necessarly be as cheap as some PDAs and cellphones, as it is not meant to compete against those directly, but rather against other calculators.

As for the TI-Nspire, it is indeed a ripoff and the TI-84+ is 10x worse, given its performances. (although the later offers more freedom)

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Re: Casio Prizm - Color graphic calculator
« Reply #104 on: October 10, 2010, 01:56:20 am »
That just makes TI even more unethical than i thought. With all its actions to limit the use of its calcs for games and programming and making people buy it by discontinuing older models, why why why is TI acting not like a proper company and like one that wants to get money???
I've always liked Casio better,however i swayed towards TI when I originally learnt about all its calcs and how it had more dominance than Casio (in general). Now, I'm swaying back to preferring Casio calcs, and this Prizm is a big incentive...
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