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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #75 on: November 16, 2010, 08:46:07 pm »
The user guide's already out? Too bad there's no info on the calc itself, though.




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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #76 on: November 17, 2010, 03:47:07 am »
Yeah I wish they gave info on the processor. At least the good thing is that we can use some colors in BASIC, we have Getkey and such stuff. I think there's even string commands. I hope that BASIC is as fast, if not faster than the 9860G, though. If it's as slow as the old calcs it's nearly useless for games.

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #77 on: November 17, 2010, 03:56:09 am »
Does anyone know the processor clock? Maybe they threw a snapdragon in it XD
That would be amazing, but I doubt that's the case. :/ I'm sure it'll be decent though. =)

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #78 on: November 17, 2010, 03:59:24 pm »
Still, it should be decent if it's an ARM. A 200mhz chip is pretty cheap nowadays. ($5 or so)

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #79 on: November 17, 2010, 04:26:34 pm »
At least close to the nspire, maybe only 80 mhz instead of 150, either way it'll be great. The nspire sucked because of its OS, mostly.

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #80 on: November 18, 2010, 04:00:01 pm »
Wow, BASIC with a fast processor and color... This is going to be (even) more a gaming device than the Z80s!




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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #81 on: November 18, 2010, 04:21:47 pm »
well I need to get prepared for the SDK: does anyone know of a good 16 bit image editor?

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #82 on: November 18, 2010, 04:22:30 pm »
well I need to get prepared for the SDK: does anyone know of a good 16 bit image editor?

i could make one


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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #83 on: November 18, 2010, 04:39:49 pm »
I'm excited about the Prizm, mainly because it might bait TI into a price drop on the 8x-series calcs :)

Yeah, this is gonna be cool. The potential of a (relatively) high-resolution screen with color is just outstanding.
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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #84 on: November 18, 2010, 07:29:38 pm »
By the way, Casio-BANK mentions that the 9860G, GII and 9750GII calcs got 100-ish MHz processors in this tutorial http://casio.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=127 . I wonder if that is what will have the Prizm or if it will be even faster? If I remember, on the 9860G, the processor was clocked down to 29 MHz during the OS execution, but I could be wrong. I found the info on Wikipedia a while ago.


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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #85 on: November 18, 2010, 08:04:08 pm »
Still, that is much better than TI84s. The CPU is probably a SuperH, like their previous models. I'm pretty sure there is a gcc for that.

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #86 on: November 18, 2010, 08:09:11 pm »
I hope those calcs are downclocked to 29-ish MHz, though, because if their BASIC can't even beat a 83+ in speed with a 100 MHz processor, then it's pretty sad...

Someone should port Axe Parser to the Prizm when it comes out. :P

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #87 on: November 18, 2010, 08:15:51 pm »
By the way, Casio-BANK mentions that the 9860G, GII and 9750GII calcs got 100-ish MHz processors in this tutorial http://casio.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=127 . I wonder if that is what will have the Prizm or if it will be even faster? If I remember, on the 9860G, the processor was clocked down to 29 MHz during the OS execution, but I could be wrong. I found the info on Wikipedia a while ago.
I would not be surprised if they were >100 MHz.  Once I compared the graphing speeds by doing about 10  of the same equations...the 9750 was already done when the 84 was finishing the second one.

Axe parser on the Prizm--that would be awesome
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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #88 on: November 20, 2010, 11:04:20 am »
I saw the Prizm on google shopping, for $120, but there was no major sellers.

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Re: More Casio Prizm information
« Reply #89 on: November 20, 2010, 05:23:05 pm »
Really? I checked Ebay often to see if prototypes were leaked there and no luck.