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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/2907077
I'm pretty sure you know what follows...
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A recreation of the Piper Perri Surrounded meme. A white CASIO CFX-9850GB PLUS calculator is laid on its side on a cushion while three TI-83 Plus and two TI-84 Plus calculators, all black, are standing behind the cushion. The faces of corresponding actors are shown in 4-tone pixelated pictures on each calculator's respective screens, grayscale on the TIs and sepia-toned on the CASIO thanks to its (limited) color graphics. Words of the text "Original meme by Chaotic Neutral Czech" are used in place of the SHIFT functions on a row of keys on the Casio as a mild watermark.
I'd buy the fuck out of an open source calculator
There are some open source graphic calculator projects but they aren't mass-produced and none are exam-approved. Software support is lacking but TI-84 Plus emulators exist so if someone rewrites TI-OS and the ROM (or requires people to dump it like the current ones), it could run that.
Did you know the humble Nokia 3410, the first Java phone, would dither games meant for higher-resolution color screens? Of course, programs for these calculators could use semi-vector graphics like the Web, or detect screen resolution and support the common ones natively, in a single or multiple executables like PocketPC software.