I'd rather one of the many open source alternatives to that ecosystem.
Do you have any examples? I’m pretty curious about Picotron, but would love to try an OSS alternative.
Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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#12I'd rather one of the many open source alternatives to that ecosystem.
Do you have any examples? I’m pretty curious about Picotron, but would love to try an OSS alternative.
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#14Does anyone also think these "is a" headlines violate commonly accepted headline rules? Arguably it should read: "Picotron, a Fantasy Workstation"
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#15It's a sign of the fact that personal computing has gone way, way off the rails that we make pretend computers to run on our real computers just to have fun ways to compute again. I really really appreciate work like this, but why aren't our actual operating systems "cozy" enough to support creative work anymore?
Re: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
#16Does anyone also think these "is a" headlines violate commonly accepted headline rules? Arguably it should read: "Picotron, a Fantasy Workstation"
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#17Does anyone also think these "is a" headlines violate commonly accepted headline rules? Arguably it should read: "Picotron, a Fantasy Workstation"
It's 'representative text from the article' in this case plus it probably doesn't matter in most other cases.
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#18I'd rather one of the many open source alternatives to that ecosystem.
However, TIC-80 only exists because PICO-8 does, and without money, presumably PICO-8 couldn't've been made, the dude would have had to be doing other work to live.
Previously this guy made Voxatron, which I imagine paid for PICO-8, and that presumably paid for Picotron, so if I don't buy Picotron, then perhaps I'll prevent his next work of art from coming to fruition?
Yes it bothers me a little bit that PICO-8 itself isn't open source, but I can't see the alternative, otherwise how can the dev afford to be spending time thinking about and working on these new things?
It's not as though this is a huge company, or that there are alternative means of generating income from it (no Enterprise wants PICO-8 support, for example).
I don't see an alternative to giving the dev a few bucks to keep making art projects that I love.
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#19I'd rather one of the many open source alternatives to that ecosystem.
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#20It's a sign of the fact that personal computing has gone way, way off the rails that we make pretend computers to run on our real computers just to have fun ways to compute again. I really really appreciate work like this, but why aren't our actual operating systems "cozy" enough to support creative work anymore?
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