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I think manually porting games won't be too difficult, though. Well, assuming the new larger/color LCD doesn't slow things down and the processor/LCD can still handle games at that speed.

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I think this calc, assuming it isn't too expensive, will definitively bring a lot of people in the community compared to what the Nspire did, especially because it natively supports ASM and that the TI-83+ series has always been the most popular. Sadly, a lot of the newer people who grew up with Crysis-esque game graphics seems to be turned down by the 96x64 monochrome graphics of the older models, especially when they get a TI-Nspire CX or Casio PRIZM, but those people will probably don't mind the new calc. Also in 5 years or so, I'm betting it will do like old game consoles and monochrome calcs will once again increase in popularity due to the old school factor (like with the NES, SNES and more recently the Nintendo 64)

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I think this calc, assuming it isn't too expensive, will definitively bring a lot of people in the community compared to what the Nspire did, especially because it natively supports ASM and that the TI-83+ series has always been the most popular. Sadly, a lot of the newer people who grew up with Crysis-esque game graphics seems to be turned down by the 96x64 monochrome graphics of the older models, especially when they get a TI-Nspire CX or Casio PRIZM, but those people will probably don't mind the new calc. Also in 5 years or so, I'm betting it will do like old game consoles and monochrome calcs will once again increase in popularity due to the old school factor (like with the NES, SNES and more recently the Nintendo 64)

I wonder if TI is making this to attract programmers, it seems like too much effort to improve their market towards plain-old-students and teachers

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I don't think they cared that much about people who make calc games, since their focus is education, but maybe they realized that calc games brings more sales from word to mouth or that they got too many complains about how hard making math programs for the Nspire was. For backward compatibility they probably found it too long and hard to add so to keep the OS easy to maintain they probably ditched compatibility.

Hopefully for this calcs new games aren't only ports of very old games or emulators, though. It would suck if nothing new ever came out D: (like on the TI-Nspire, where in ASM/C there are barely any new games)

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I cannot even afford an Nspire. If I'm going to buy a new calc it's probably gonna be the new 84+ C, but it's gotta be good.
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The only reason I bought my nspire cx was gbc4nspire :p
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The only reason I bought my nspire cx was gbc4nspire :p
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Yeah, about the same reasons for me. It's kinda sad, though, that I'd have gotten a CX CAS paid for by my parents if I had just waited a few months :P

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Well you can wait for a CAS to be ported...
edit: but we're getting off-topic :P
« Last Edit: November 14, 2012, 06:28:45 am by aeTIos »
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Satanic indeed. :P Well, hopefully the porting will go smooth.


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I cannot even afford an Nspire. If I'm going to buy a new calc it's probably gonna be the new 84+ C, but it's gotta be good.
Well based on what might be suggested for the price, the new calc might be almost the same price as the Nspire D:.

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In the case the price is similar to the nspire's, I would go for the nspire.
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