[Casio FX9860] Super Hexagon Casio : rose from the dead projects

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 07, 2015, 11:29:29 PM

Not really though. I was just bringing that game back because he gave me the envy to. Now, I just want to see chich one will comes first. Both of us have an handicap : he runs it on a 6MH device, I'm a professionnal procrastinator with a health issue which forces me to rest.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 08, 2015, 02:59:40 AM

Ooh I like those screenies Eiyeron. Also I hope your health recovers soon. Is it a permanent disease or just something temporary?

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 08, 2015, 07:01:09 AM

I'm-a going out today. It seems that I won't have any long-term problem, only some medic visits for the next month.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 08, 2015, 07:06:55 AM

Ah ok. Hopefully nothing bad happens again. Also stay healthy

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 08, 2015, 07:09:10 AM

Yeah, I should. I'm staying home next week though. Thanks.

EDIT : now the colors are reversed at 60 seconds.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 08, 2015, 05:12:12 PM

Ooh that came out pretry nicely.

btw is there a lot of motion blur during gameplay like some TI-84+ games?

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 08, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

There is a lot less motion blur as the screen is made to reduce the effect and give a better contrast.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 08, 2015, 07:49:21 PM

Aah cool, although I bet grayscale on such screen must flicker like crazy >.<

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 08, 2015, 08:24:25 PM

On my calc, only a sort of 3 gray is flickerless. I have yet to find a better timing for 4 grays and find again the working graayscale functions.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 08, 2015, 10:33:29 PM

Would the TI-83+ trick of using checkerboards work? Although it doesn't fix the flickering, it creates an optical illusion making everything look flickerless or close. Also I wonder if such grayscale would slow down Hexagon massively?

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 09, 2015, 08:40:30 AM

I haven't tried to edit the grayscale display functions because two things

- timer based grayscale kills your processing power as you need high frequency refresh timer.
- the checkerboard pattern would slow down the refresh itself and it would need a big refactor to avoid the function interrupting itself, killing the timer system and forcing one to reboot.

So, no grayscale for Hexagon. But this could be doable with a high overclock.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 09, 2015, 03:40:01 PM

Aah ok sorry to hear. That said, with what happened to a bunch of Casio PRIZM calcs on Cemetech, I am unsure if overclocking on game startup is a good idea so it might be best to stick to current processor speeds for safety reasons. Not to mention overclocking must eat batteries pretty fast anyway.

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 09, 2015, 04:32:27 PM

Overclocking seems more stable on FX as even Wolfenstein used it. It seems quite common to use CpuSpeed or the more recent FTune .

Dream of Omnimaga · January 09, 2015, 05:36:14 PM

Maybe the failures are more of a PRIZM thing, then? It's possible that since the PRIZM doesn't officially support C development, unlike the 9860G, that the calc has fewer protections against risky manipulations, so like with the TI-Nspire, bad PRIZM code could result into bricking the calculator, while with the 9860G or 84+, all that will happen is a reboot (and in the 84+ case, a RAM reset). It's actually possible to brick a 84+ but it's much harder than with the TI-Nspire.

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · January 11, 2015, 09:41:39 AM

EDIT : SURPRISE! Preview release! GIve it a try there!