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[dscoshpe]

go here: http://www.saltire.com/Classpad/

This site, hosted by the people that make the Casio CAS for Classpad and Algebra FX 2.0 have put up this information.

Heres the best part, go to the link "Software" and you will see a lot of games (presumably made by Saltire) that they say are "emulated". Check it out.

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[BiTwhise]

There is now a Chip8/Schip8 interpreter for the Casio Classpad 300. A number of popular games are also included

They're speaking about it as if it was already out.. Casio has yet to officially release the damn thing..

Anyway, looking forward to getting my hands on this calc, and playing around with it.

As for the Chip8 emulation, most of the games are probably old classics, not made by Saltire themselves..
It could open new doors for basic programmers wanting to take the next step in programming for their calc... As for me, I think I'll stick to assembler, to squize the most out of this machine as well

[2072]

I wonder whether they still use a NEC with ROM-DOS... it would be great.

[BiTwhise]

knowing Casio and their lazy habbits, I bet they'll stick with their good old Nec and Rom-Dos just for the convenience of it.. sweet for us anyway

[Brazzucko]

The games are not for the FX 1.0 \ AFX 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dscoshpe]

Ahh... well it could be possible...

here: http://members.aol.com/autismuk/chip8/ there is a Chip8 emulator, and using its source it could be possible to make an AFX emulator for chip8, then all you must do is download the Chip8 games.

just get thr right people to do it

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[Mohamed]

Casio could change their processor as they recently did with the Pocket Viewer in the new PV-S1600 model.
The following text is copied from Pocket Viewer:

However, Casio realized that they had outgrown the hardware. Only up to 16 add in programs could be added and developers were restricted in the amount of memory they could use. A new microprocessor was required to power future devices and allow for greater software and hardware innovation.

Casio R&D chose a new CPU (SH3 as opposed to the 80286 compatible for the technical minded) and revised the hardware architecture to produce the all new PV-S1600. This provides faster operation from 5.2MIPS to 30 MIPS. This can be seen in Pocket Sheet where some operations are up to 200 times faster. Up to 64 add-in programs are now supported and programs are only limited by the available memory size rather than 128Kb in previous models. USB 1.1 is supported (as is serial if you buy an extra cable). However, sync via USB is up to 5 times faster. The sync software is also improved to support up to 256 PCs rather than one as previously.

Besides, I really don't believe how good the Classpad software is, just awesome, but, for beginners in mathematics.

P.S. Bad news today they totaly prohibited usage of programmable calculators in our exams. Very very rude.

[BiTwhise]

SH3 sounds cool RISC
Maybe they even opt for the SH-3E, and give us a floating point unit