Created 2022-07-27
This was interesting post about fantasy consoles today:
I am aware of the PICO-8, although I have never used it. TIC-80 is:
a free and open-source fantasy video game console for making, playing, and sharing games on a limited platform that mimics the 8-bit systems of the 1980s.
It looks quite nice, as it has colours.
Another option to conside is:
which is described as:
an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine.
The CHIP-8 looks to be much more primitive than the aforementioned offerings. I haven't used it. I think there was a guy on YouTube that showed how to create an emulator and assembler, probably in Rust.
The CHIP-8 has variants that improve it in various ways. I think that there was one university professor who taught historical game development, and used CHIP-8 on one of his courses.
I had toyed with the idea of learning about CHIP-8, and maybe incorporating it in my up-and-coming BBS. Might be a little selling point to stir up a bit of interest. Maybe. We'll see.