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Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Re: Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Post by Tepix »

__natty__ wrote: post #8

Why not for 3 eur buy some basic arduino or other tiny hardware to tinker with and for another few eur, tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches? You start programming with option to expand to the larger project in the future. You have constraints of real device, community is much larger and there are more learning resources.

For starters, there is way more friction both in buying hardware and waiting for it to arrive and developing on real hardware in general.

I agree however that it's super cool to have real hardware to run this on.

Re: Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Post by p2detar »

Looks cool. I most enjoyed the zombies game someone uploaded on itch.io. One thing to note is that game speeds feel very fast to me. I barely did anything in the asteroids game and the others also seem to run quite fast. It could be just me.

Re: Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Post by bmenrigh »

fivetomidnight wrote: post #7

Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

Mini Micro seems to be built on Unity. The MiniScript portion of it is open source https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript but the version packaged for use by Unity costs some money. I can't tell if the people behind MiniScript are the same people behind the Mini Micro.

Re: Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Post by yard2010 »

newswasboring wrote: post #10
__natty__ wrote: post #8

Why not for 3 eur buy some basic arduino or other tiny hardware to tinker with and for another few eur, tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches? You start programming with option to expand to the larger project in the future. You have constraints of real device, community is much larger and there are more learning resources.

Because moving a sprite is much more exhilarating than blinking an LED.

Well how about moving a sprite by blinking a few leds?

Re: Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

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Post by helsinkiandrew »

fivetomidnight wrote: post #7

Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

The miniscript language itself is MIT License:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript

The Minimicro code doesn't seem to have any license in the repository or code:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-sysdisk

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