Pico8 - nonexistent game console
The second day I die of emotion and decided to share with the community. By and large, it is enough just to give a link , but then it doesn’t seem to be an article, so I’ll tell you a little.
Pico8 is an “emulator” of a non-existent 80x gaming console, combined with the “cartridge” development environment for this console.
The machine is very powerful - resolution 128x128, 16 colors, 32 kb of memory, etc. in one word - the beast!
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The development environment includes a code editor (the code is written on a subset of the Lua language), a graphics editor (pixel, of course), a music editor, and a sound effects editor. The toy goes on Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry Pi. For especially seriously minded, the toy is in the gland .
update: strictly speaking, PocketChip is a minicomputer running a trimmed debian and running Pico8 under it
Ready games and programs can be added to “bbs”, at the same time they are converted to html5 and appear on the site, here you can see examples. Of course, you can wander through the bbs sections on the Pico itself.
As a contribution to the common cause, I wrote the implementation of the “Langton Ant” in 20 lines:
Update: I wrote a more advanced demo on türmites.
Having played enough, he took an ancient little netbook, put some basic Linux there, put Pico8, gave it to children. I give simple tasks, while rejoice. Seems to have found the perfect learning environment for programming.
Pico8 is an “emulator” of a non-existent 80x gaming console, combined with the “cartridge” development environment for this console.
The machine is very powerful - resolution 128x128, 16 colors, 32 kb of memory, etc. in one word - the beast!
')
The development environment includes a code editor (the code is written on a subset of the Lua language), a graphics editor (pixel, of course), a music editor, and a sound effects editor. The toy goes on Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry Pi. For especially seriously minded, the toy is in the gland .
update: strictly speaking, PocketChip is a minicomputer running a trimmed debian and running Pico8 under it
Ready games and programs can be added to “bbs”, at the same time they are converted to html5 and appear on the site, here you can see examples. Of course, you can wander through the bbs sections on the Pico itself.
As a contribution to the common cause, I wrote the implementation of the “Langton Ant” in 20 lines:
Update: I wrote a more advanced demo on türmites.
Having played enough, he took an ancient little netbook, put some basic Linux there, put Pico8, gave it to children. I give simple tasks, while rejoice. Seems to have found the perfect learning environment for programming.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/311698/
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