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1998-04-23
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History of development
whats new?
- asc2cas and cas2asc now support lower case [a..z]!
now you can type: Text 10,10,"Hello World!"
- several bugfixes in asc2cas and cas2asc (For matched Tokens look at
ctf.tok! Sorry, I have no time!)
- screendump can handle monochrome and color images from CFX-9850G
- screendump write received image as Postscript file (color or sw)
changes in Version 0.2
- Program asc2cas convert casio-program from human readable form into CAS-format
- Program cas2asc "disassamble" casio-program from CAS-format into readable form
- casio-font (various formats) for all calculator keys
- some macros using the new casio-font for TeX
- some buttons for use with (GoldED?)
- all binaries now compiled for 68030 or better
- some useful links to casio-related sites
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First read this section and warnings!
- connect your calculator to serial port of amiga (look at WWW for Hardware)
- copy the files amicas, asc2cas, cas2asc and screenshot to directory
*********************** WARNING ********************************
Be careful with the connector of amiga and calculator!
The Software is alpha!! (not fully testet on other amigas!)
^C (User-break) not implemented in the programs!
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How write program on my maiga for casio-calculator?
- choose your favourite text-editor
- read the casio-manual about the command syntax or the added mapfile
- save the text (for example: ram:test.txt)
- type at shell:
asc2cas ram:test.txt HD:data/cas/prog.cas
- you get a program in HD:data/cas/prog.cas
How to transfer a program to calculator?
- select RECEIVE in the link-menu of calculator
- type at shell:
amicas -w work:amicas/tennis.cas
- after transmission the calculator appears an error
but the received program is complete (see warning :-( )
How to transfer a program to amiga?
- select one program to TRANSMIT in the link-menu of calculator
- type at shell:
amicas -r work:amicas/
- after prompting select on the calculator YES for Transmit OK?
- you will find a file with ending .cas on your disk in desired path
How edit/print a casio-prog?
- transfer the prog form casio to amiga
- type at shell:
cas2asc work:amicas/tennis.cas ram:tennis.txt
- load the file ram:tennis.txt in your favorite text-editor,
edit, save or print it.
How to transfer a screenshot to amiga?
Display the image at Intuition Window:
- set on the calculator the Image Set to Monochrome or Color (see the Manual of calculator)
- type at shell:
screendump
- press the Button labeled with:
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| F<-->D |
-------
- look at, grab, save or print the image and close the window.
To produce a Postscript-file from screenshot:
- type at shell:
screendump -ps hd:data/postscript/test.ps
- press the Button labeled with:
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| F<-->D |
-------
- you will find the ps-file in hd:data/postscript/test.ps
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If you need information about the parsed commands from asc2cas
look at the file ctf.tok. There you can find all Tokens used by
various CASIO-models.
For further information send a mail
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Some casio-links:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hjo/casio/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1949/casio.html
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/casio.htm
http://www.york.ac.uk/%7Eopk101/Calc/
http://hera.algonet.se/~anthin/fractals.htm
http://www.dataphone.se/~tristan/casio/index.html
http://www.york.ac.uk/~tw104/casio/index.html
http://www.casio-calculators.com.au/resource.htm
http://www.ram.net.au/users/madmanu/casio/CASIO.HTM
http://www.casio.co.jp/edu_e/
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/~cwatson/cfx/cat/progaid.htm
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send bugs,
suggestions,
hints,
headers and linkprotokolls for other types of data (matrices, files, V-Window, etc.)
IFF-code (language C) for storing a bitmap window to disk,
gifts to my e-mail-address (Manolis.John@chemie.tu-dresden.de)
I need your suggestions!
todo:
- anybody knows how to implement a TIMEOUT-function for serial-port?
- "clean" the binaries
- read and write for multiple program-files/backup for calculator-mem
- support more Datatypes
- MUI-Interface or buttons, scripts and menu for GoldED
- etc.