home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- 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
-
- ************************************************************************************
-
-
- 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!
- ****************************************************************
-
- 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:
- -------
- | 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:
- -------
- | F<-->D |
- -------
- - you will find the ps-file in hd:data/postscript/test.ps
-
- *********************************************************
- 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
- *********************************************************
- 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
-
- *********************************************************
-
-
- 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.
-
-