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Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

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Re: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

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Post by WD-42 »

tazu wrote: post #2

This looks similar to what the cool couple at 100 Rabbits [1] are doing with Uxn. Overall, I love to support anyone producing hobby / cute software (especially with Lua!). [1]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

The fact that they seemingly write all this stuff from a sailboat makes it even cooler.

Re: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

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Post by PostOnce »

Pico-8 was and is one of the most pleasant pieces of software I have used. I can only imagine the wonders the community will produce for this thing.

Of course, despite the machine itself (pico 8 that is, and this thing too) being proprietary, all the user-programs are source-available if not open source. It's really educational and I love it.

There will be compatible implementations of this thing, but the pico-8 tools were so refined, and pico-8 was so cheap, that I can't imagine not giving the dude 10 bucks. (i.e. the open source implementations might just run the program but not come with all the cute tools like the IDE, the pixel sprite/map/etc editor, or the music tracker), that was well and truly worth the money. Pico-8 is one of the only pieces of paid-for software I haven't hated.

Tl;dr: I think pico-8 is wonderful, I think the community and free programs are wonderful, and I think given that, this will also be wonderful.

I'm a fan and have been for a while.

Re: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

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Post by tazu »

WD-42 wrote: post #3
tazu wrote: post #2

This looks similar to what the cool couple at 100 Rabbits [1] are doing with Uxn. Overall, I love to support anyone producing hobby / cute software (especially with Lua!). [1]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

The fact that they seemingly write all this stuff from a sailboat makes it even cooler.

Last I checked it was mostly solar-powered too. That's pipe-dream stuff.

Re: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

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Post by snvzz »

tazu wrote: post #2

This looks similar to what the cool couple at 100 Rabbits [1] are doing with Uxn. Overall, I love to support anyone producing hobby / cute software (especially with Lua!). [1]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

uxn is awesome, and the implementations I have looked at seem to be MIT licensed.
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