SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
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SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
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#2I love absolutely everything about this except the language choice.
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#3"8-bit"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Javascript has no 8-bit types, nor does it have memory limits that 8-bit machines had. Pixelated graphics are cool and all, but it does not place you in the same league with people who made games fit in 128 bytes of ram and 2K of ROM, sorry!
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#4I love absolutely everything about this except the language choice.
What's an alternative that doesn't make massive sacrifices to the feature set?
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#5For those wondering, the biggest differentiator of this from PICO-8 is that this is open-source and PICO-8 is not.
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#6Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#7For those wondering, the biggest differentiator of this from PICO-8 is that this is open-source and PICO-8 is not.
Not to mention JS vs Lua (an unfortunate direction in my view). That said, open source is good. There are a few other open source versions. TIC-80 is another open source option. LIKO-12 as well.
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#8I love absolutely everything about this except the language choice.
What's an alternative that doesn't make massive sacrifices to the feature set?
I think Lua is a wodnerful langauge, highly embedable, great feature set/style, quite fast, really lightweight. Pico-8 had it right in everything but the license.
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#9"8-bit" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Javascript has no 8-bit types, nor does it have memory limits that 8-bit machines had. Pixelated graphics are cool and all, but it does not place you in the same league with people who made games fit in 128 bytes of ram and 2K of ROM, sorry!
Other than the phrase 8-bit fantasy, I couldn't find the phrase 8-bit anywhere on the linked page.
Re: SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
#10"8-bit" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Javascript has no 8-bit types, nor does it have memory limits that 8-bit machines had. Pixelated graphics are cool and all, but it does not place you in the same league with people who made games fit in 128 bytes of ram and 2K of ROM, sorry!
Other than the phrase 8-bit fantasy, I couldn't find the phrase 8-bit anywhere on the linked page.
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