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Calculator Community => Casio Calculators => Topic started by: [email protected] on January 09, 2013, 02:59:50 pm

Title: TI basic converter
Post by: [email protected] on January 09, 2013, 02:59:50 pm
Many more people have TI calcs than Casio, making it hard to find programs for it. It would be nice to convert TI basic to Casio.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Link on January 09, 2013, 03:01:00 pm
It would be nice... and what is your point?
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Keoni29 on January 09, 2013, 03:02:59 pm
He wants to use TI basic software on his casio, because there are not a lot of programs for the casio calcs.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Link on January 09, 2013, 03:03:53 pm
I get that, but what is the point of the post... Is he requesting something? Cause this just seems to be like a statment of fact/lamentation.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Keoni29 on January 09, 2013, 03:08:04 pm
I guess so.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: ElementCoder on January 09, 2013, 03:12:39 pm
I think he's asking for some kind of compiler that you would feed TI BASIC and produces CASIO (language) files.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 09, 2013, 03:25:20 pm
He is suggesting a project idea. It would be nice indeed, although kinda hard, due to all the unavailable commands on one calc or another. Screen size might also be a similar issue as what will happen when running TI-83+/84+ BASIC graphics on a TI-84+ C Silver Edition. It would most likely still be feasible, though, or maybe there could be a TI-84+ emulator for the PRIZM.

Or maybe an Axe Parser to C converter or something.

There was a small early stages tutorial on how to manually port 83+ BASIC games to Casio BASIC, but I don't remember where it was on the forums.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Sorunome on January 09, 2013, 07:10:46 pm
With the screen issues, don't the casio screens have more pixels than the TI one?
Because then you could just leave it as it is and center it and maybe even make a border :D
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: TIfanx1999 on January 09, 2013, 10:22:17 pm
The other issues with such a converter is that while something might be a good programming practice on TI, it might not be on Casio. This could lead to very slow programs. Some commands probably don't work the same either which could cause converted programs to act very strangely. Unfortunately, such a converter would be a pretty large task and would require a lot of work to even be somewhat viable. :/
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 09, 2013, 10:32:22 pm
With the screen issues, don't the casio screens have more pixels than the TI one?
Because then you could just leave it as it is and center it and maybe even make a border :D
Yeah that was the issue I meant. As for a border it is possible but there would still be issues with graphing and stuff dependent on ZOOM properties, since regardless of the resolution, if the window is set at -10 and 10 Xmin/max/Ymin/max, it would look as big, while stuff that is dependent on pixels like Text wouldn't.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Sorunome on January 09, 2013, 10:39:36 pm
Wait a second: What if somebody goes on assembling his/her own ti basic interpreter, then you just have to change like the first few bytes of the program and the file extention.
Title: Re: TI basic converter
Post by: Xeda112358 on January 09, 2013, 10:49:14 pm
I wish I would take time to really learn C !_! I've been wanting to write something like this for the prizm  and I'm sure I could handle it. I just need to learn a decent language for it D: