Casio chose a different path for its bundled software than most companies. While Sharp, NEC, and Fujitsu (and others) included some simple demos to show off the system's capabilities, Casio included regular software. I am sure someone who had an FP-1100 with its fairly limited range of software might appreciate this, but as someone who has amassed a bunch of old computers and realizes that the FP-1100 simply doesn't have that much software but still enjoys the machine itself, I wish they had included the demo. Oh well!

This tape includes five programs. The first is a mahjong game. I hate playing simple mahjong implementations less than I hate "playing" shogi, but it's still not a lot of fun for me. Still, they used some nice, clean graphics and I can appreciate that.

Next up is Space Transporter 2, and it makes me wonder how much different Space Transporter 1 was. That is just to say it's simple, but you can enjoy shooting things a bit on your FP-1100 until you save up enough money to buy Vegetable Crush or some other higher-effort shooter.

Side B seems to be more about productivity. The first program is a graphics editor. You have a cross-hairs cursor to indicate your position, but the commands are all menu-based so you have to be able to visualize what you're after in your head a bit to get anywhere with this. Casio (or someone at Casio's request) made the first image, I made the second.

Next is a spreadsheet. The translation of the title is literally "simple software", but it seems to be an abbreviation for "simple entry software", which seems to be a convention for describing spreadsheets. These days, we usually just say "ekuseru". Anyway, without the manual (actually I have the manual, I just didn't read it), it's hard to figure out how to use, but I entered some simple data.

Finally is a contact manager, specifically a customer relations manager, but mostly it seems suited as a regular contact manager. I think this variety of software is more an exercise for the programmer than a practical solution for storing contacts, but maybe there is a particular balance where you have more data than you want to write in an old-fashioned address book, but not so big that it doesn't fit into available BASIC RAM?

Don't call me, I won't call you!