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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

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Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

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post #53

Anyone else having issues with playing in FireFox? Seems like a really cool project, looks like I might have to install it instead of using it in browser ... a bit disappointed :(

What version FF are you using? It could be that you are on a beta build and something is slowing it down, or you are running an older version.

Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

#63

Maybe this is a good time to plug PICO-8 which describes itself as a "fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs." https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php I don't even know the difference between the two programs, but someone interested in TIC might also be interested in PICO.

PICO-8 is proprietary; TIC-80 is MIT-licensed free software. There is no reason to consider using PICO-8 now that TIC-80 exists.

Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

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post #53

Anyone else having issues with playing in FireFox? Seems like a really cool project, looks like I might have to install it instead of using it in browser ... a bit disappointed :(

What version FF are you using? It could be that you are on a beta build and something is slowing it down, or you are running an older version.

59.0.3 On Win10 (x64)

Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

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post #53

Anyone else having issues with playing in FireFox? Seems like a really cool project, looks like I might have to install it instead of using it in browser ... a bit disappointed :(

Works fine for me on Firefox 59 on Windows.

Weird. I have 59.0.3 on Win also.

Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

#68
post #57

Another interesting fantasy console is LIKO-12, with a huge advantage of being free software: https://github.com/RamiLego4Game/LIKO-12

TIC-80 has the exact same license (MIT): https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/LICENSE

Only the free version, there is another (Pro) version which has additional features and a closed source.

Re: TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

#69
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIC-80 has the exact same license (MIT): https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/LICENSE

Only the free version, there is another (Pro) version which has additional features and a closed source.

This isn't correct either

"For users who can't spend the money, we made it easy to build the pro version from the source code."

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80#pro-version

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/Makefile

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