First Impressions

[Kevin Ouellet]

(01-07-2014 08:15 AM)Boo Wrote:  

(01-07-2014 07:23 AM)Kevin Ouellet Wrote:  It depends what language he programs in and what kind of performance he expects from a calculator, though. For example, although HP PPL might not be close to ASM/C performances, just look at how bad TI-BASIC and especially Casio BASIC are.

Half the fun is making a limited platform do stuff. I enjoy working around limitations such as speed, memory, graphical capability. I don't expect much from the machine, and have been around long enough to know a few tricks. I'm really only interested in 2D retro style games, such as I used to program in the early 1980s. I expect the prime will be capable enough for my needs.

It is, I think, assuming you mean something like Super Mario. Just as long as your tilemaps is generated with non-scaled sprites (or scaled in one go later) you should be fine. You could even use parallax scrolling if you want to. A Touhou shoot-em-up with 2000 bullets on the screen at once might be pushing things a little too far, though.