- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
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 only have 3 graphing calculators and only paid $50 for them (the CASIO is borrowed and the TI-83+ was donated to me with a broken screen cable, and later I resold the TI-84+ for $40 so just $10 in total) but it took me a week to make this back in June 2020. Consider the procedure (the one I took, other are possible):
96x64
or128x64
), adjust brightness/contrast.0=white
,1=red
,2=blue
,3=dark green
(out of the 16-color DOS pallette).MENU→E
to adjust the contrast on the calculator (lower for all colors to get skin tone optimised sepia).MENU→5
(GRAPH
),SHIFT→MENU
(SETUP
), disable axes & coordinates.MENU→1
(RUN
),SHIFT→F4→F1
(Cls
),EXE
,OPTN→F6→F6→F2→F2
(RclPic
),[image number]
,EXE
0x
byte prefixes and,
separators.SETSRC
andSETPIC
to the Cemetech online editor.512
to768
bytes (fullscreen) and offset to 0 (top of screen).Pic4A
andPic4B
variables,MSBitplane
first,LSBitplane
second. Rename them accordingly - both inSETPIC
andSETSRC
of course.getKey(0)
function to wait for a key press. Add the new images as variables inSETPIC
.SETSRC
,SETPIC
andGRAYLIB
to the calculator’s archive.SETSRC
.ON
at the right time helps) until the game actually starts and the splashscreens are displayed sequentially. The rest of the game may be broken as the “full circle” card graphics are invisible, but we’re doing it for the splashscreen anyway.RedditLemmy username for a subtle yet readable watermark.