11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
4:39 a.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Yeah, the MK-90 looks really neat. love to find one one of those someday...
As far as Tetris (and other games)... looks like there's at least one
known copy out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pmWw4TG1o (See at
about 2:13).
Josh
Josh Dersch wrote:
Well, that's just being
pedantic :). I can plot a point at any
arbitrary x,y coordinate. It's just that there are gaps here and there
along the X axis :).
I have in my grubby little hands an Elektronika
MK-85 calculator,
which externally is a spot-on clone of the Casio FX-700P BASIC
programmable calculator. Functionally, it's identical as well, with
a few enhancements (pixel-addressable graphics, a Cyrillic
character-set, etc)
Pixel-addressable characters. I wouldn't really call it
"graphics"
since there are gaps between the character cells. Internally
though, they're 100% different -- the processor in the
MK-85 is a Russian PDP-11 knockoff.
There is also the MK-90, with a larger
graphics display and removable
RAM cartridges. Purportedly came with a RAM cartridge containing a
Tetris game, but there are no known surviving copies of the game.
Eric