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👽 clair_de_soleil

discovered a cool catagory of programs called "fantasy consoles": You program games on a theoretical retro console, and share them with everyone else! Most possible FOSS one is Tic80 https://tic80.com/

2 years ago · 👍 reinboar, skyjake, enceladus, bimzhob, bronzie_beat

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👽 enceladus

I've been learning more about them too. A friend recommended one after I mentioned liking uxn (https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) · 2 years ago

👽 kelbot

@ailolai If you're into Amstrad CPC you should checkout fellow geminaut Juan Martinez's capsule. He makes homebrew games for old systems including a handful for CPC that are really good. gemini://capsule.usebox.net/games/ · 2 years ago

👽 kelbot

TIC80 is a lot nicer for running on various devices since it is actually open source while Pico 8 is proprietary. For example TIC80 has a libretro core so you can play the carts in retroarch. There is a libretro core that tries reverse engineer Pico 8 but it doesn't work for most carts. Since there is no Pico 8 source available it makes things like that a lot harder to do. · 2 years ago

👽 kelbot

@clair_de_soleil You're welcome! Yeah the Odroid Go Advance is pretty cool. I love the older one too. Just called Odroid Go and powered by an ESP32. · 2 years ago

👽 mntn

@cobradile94 Yes and yes, one example is the PICO-8 where people have been porting it to various handhelds for a while. · 2 years ago

👽 cobradile94

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea. Are these emulators for consoles that don’t physically exist? Can someone make a physical console out of them? · 2 years ago

👽 clair_de_soleil

@kelbot also thx for mention on smolzine :] · 2 years ago

👽 clair_de_soleil

@ailolai I've actually been thinking about getting something like this or a Commodore, but maybe a few days late for a shoping binge :( · 2 years ago

👽 ailolai

I tried those, but I have a softer heart for "real" old hardware... the Amstrad CPC line, specially :) · 2 years ago

👽 clair_de_soleil

@kelbot Odriod Go seems cool, surprised I never heard of these. Might actually pick one up on ebay · 2 years ago

👽 kelbot

TIC80 is very cool. I like to play some of the carts on my Odroid Go Advance. Who was, someone on station made a game for a virtual console where each "cartridge" is printed on a single piece of paper in the form of QR codes. · 2 years ago

👽 moddedbear

I love these. I feel like the philosophy behind them isn't all that different from gemini. One cool piece of software that I think is worth a mention is picoCAD for the PICO-8. https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad · 2 years ago