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I've made a NES scientific calculator (after all, if the Nintendo Switch has a Calculator app, the NES deserves one too): https://wendelscardua.itch.io/nes-calculator
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wendelscardua wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 9:02 pm Image

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I've made a NES scientific calculator (after all, if the Nintendo Switch has a Calculator app, the NES deserves one too): https://wendelscardua.itch.io/nes-calculator
Haha, nice one!

I wonder if this would make a good zapper program... if those buttons were on a black background you could potentially detect what exact key it is pointed at with no white screen flash, by flickering the right/bottom edge highlight at alternating frames, to detect in which direction the zapper went relative to the key.
(although the precision might not be good enough in practice, especially on smaller CRTs...)
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I would have arranged the trig functions like this:

SIN CSC
COS SEC
TAN COT

Makes more sense that way since the original is on the left and its reciprocal on the right.
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puppydrum64 wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 10:26 am I would have arranged the trig functions like this:

SIN CSC
COS SEC
TAN COT

Makes more sense that way since the original is on the left and its reciprocal on the right.
I preferred to pair them as {thing, co-thing}... But both options make way more sense than whatever they did on the Nintendo Switch Calculator:

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You're right that is terrible.

I saw you had Pi in your screenshot, any possibility of a pi button? Seems like it would be easy to do, just have it return a constant value like any other number key.
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puppydrum64 wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 6:49 pm I saw you had Pi in your screenshot, any possibility of a pi button? Seems like it would be easy to do, just have it return a constant value like any other number key.
It's not impossible... The "pressing a button to load a constant" part is very easy (and the code already has the constants), the only problem here is the button layout and how it was coded.

For now I've added your suggestion to the issue tracker (along with some other bugs and enhancements): https://github.com/wendelscardua/nes-calculator/issues
mario.gazziro
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Ola Wendel

Posso usar a sua caculadora em um livro texto sobre videogames que será distribuido gratitamente nas FATECs e ETECs brasileiras ?

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Hi Wendel

Can i use your NES calculator as example in a free brazilian e-book ?

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mario.gazziro wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:42 am Ola Wendel

Posso usar a sua caculadora em um livro texto sobre videogames que será distribuido gratitamente nas FATECs e ETECs brasileiras ?

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Oi, desculpa a demora, eu só vi agora seu post. Mas pode sim (espero não estar respondendo muito tarde)
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Post by mario.gazziro »

ah, esta em tempo sim. obrigado. vou citar vc no livro, eh claro. e pode acompanhar bt pela nossa pagina da universidade.
http://professor.ufabc.edu.br/~mario.ga ... jects.html
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