How many QRCodes will be needed to get the game? I remember the Megaman II Demo was needing the ridiculous amount of almost 100 QRCodes...

Hurray, we sure have the biggest Petit Computer game ever! Congrats! Hope that include a *big* lifetime!

*Cough* http://petitcomputer.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Petit_Computer_Edition *Cough*

Oh great. Make us all addicted. jk. That's a good game though!

Yeah there have been two Cookie Clicker clones for calcs recently here so I guess it's pretty popular and addicting nowadays.

I'll give this version a try at one point.

1) It can be a major PITA to develop for multiple platforms at once. I often mixed up Axe and xLIBC-enhanced TI-BASIC syntaxes, as well as HP PPL before. I usually prefer to only have 1 or 2 projects at once that are active. >.<

2) And yeah it's mainly for fun that people do it, or to push the platform's hardware to its limits. As for the games, they can vary in quality, depending of the coder and calculator. The TI-Nspires that can still run ASM/C can run Doom at very smooth frame rate, as well as 3D, but no Crysis/CoD or the like lol. The lower end platforms like the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition is pretty much NES-like in terms of game capabilities, but with more colors.

You could always make a topic in the Other calc discussion section asking what keeps each person interested in calc programming. It would be interesting

Yeah, those things are overpriced, especially the TI calcs. The HP Prime gotta have by far the best price<>performance ratio (I think it's $130 on www.hpcalc.org) since it has a 400 MHz processor, 16 MB of user RAM (32 MB total) and 256 MB of Flash, but its OS becomes unstable when you use the connectivity kit instead of the simulator to transfer programs. The 84+ is by far the most popular, but it has a 15 MHz processor with 24 KB of user RAM and 480 KB of flash. The newer FX-9860GII models also got a decent performance ratio, as long as you don't use BASIC (which is incredibly slow despite the calc hardware)

Just be careful about broken ones, though. Sometimes it says for parts or repair, but in the past people got ripped by being tricked into buying a $20-40 83+ that was supposed to be in working condition, only to end up with a broken calc.

The worst gotta be the TI-Nspires, though, because people try to pass prototypes off as commercial models and those prototypes cannot be upgraded to the latest OS version.