• Doom on a calculator - LGR
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[video=youtube;nduMTX86Zl0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nduMTX86Zl0[/video]
Fuck yeah, that was a magical time in middle school/early high school before I had a laptop. Writing games/programs for those and Casio calculators was such a blast. Hell, I still have a crappy Portal clone that I wrote for my CASIO: Splash screen: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fWinBs3.png[/IMG] Main menu: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BfokvpB.png[/IMG] In-game: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/B4XcOIP.png[/IMG]
FYI, these games aren't written in BASIC, they're written in Z80 assembly or Axe. BASIC is insanely slow on TI calculators and has an artificial speed cap of one line per screen refresh. I spent a lot of time making games in Z80 assembly for my TI-84. I had notebooks filled with memory address and stuff, wrote all of it on an IDE/assembler that ran on your calculator called Mimas.
[QUOTE=Downsider;51816905]FYI, these games aren't written in BASIC, they're written in Z80 assembly or Axe. BASIC is insanely slow on TI calculators and has an artificial speed cap of one line per screen refresh.[/QUOTE] Yeah Z80 assembly was an uphill climb comparatively if you didn't have a dedicated IDE/environment on your computer to write it. BASIC on Casio's were more forgiving and felt comparatively faster than TIs (albeit ghosting but thats just a side effect of the LCD)
[url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1521241]Fyi, there's a dedicated LGR thread.[/url]
i also have doom on my calculator [t]http://i.imgur.com/P2rluhm.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;51817483]i also have doom on my calculator [t]http://i.imgur.com/P2rluhm.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Hilariously, probably one of the best running games on the CX, I have a CAS.
Is it odd that I never got to use one of these? And I've been out of school for nearly a decade now. They seem so cool too, I almost want to buy one just to play with it now.
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