Play Mario on your calculator

Calculators have come a long way. For a while now graphic calculators have been programmable. I got a hold of one of these calculators and was amazed to find that I could download games on to it, including a Mario game. The calculator I obtained was an 8cm touch screen programmable graphics Casio Class Pad 330 calculator. It even has a function to change the off screen image.
I found the games at http://www.classpad.org/ there are many programs to download from the site for your computer and directly on to the calculator. A Software development kit is available to those who want to make their own programs. The games range from 5-in-a-row, Battleship, Chess and Checkers right up to 3D mazes, Ping Pong and Mario. Some others to mention are the card games and Tetris.
The Class Pads are also able to link up with each other and exchange data. You are also able to transfer text files on to the calculator so you can store your notes for those important exams. That is to say that you don’t get carried away playing a game and failing the exam. When compared to the average computer they are still far from powerful with less than 0.5mb of RAM.
Because of how much stuff it can do finding the right place to perform a calculation may take time and a scientific calculator would come in handy in the fiddley process of finding the right place. Overall this is a very good calculator and this calculator is over 2 years old and more powerful models are available.
If you’re interesting in getting a graphics calculator they are really great to have. This model costs around $150 new but there are many other brands out their which also have the ability to perform and operate like this calculator does.