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Yes, I’ve noticed this too! I think the generation growing up with these systems have grown up into the forties and long for seeing them come alive again. A gen
by jug 6y ago
Yes, I’ve noticed this too! I think the generation growing up with these systems have grown up into the forties and long for seeing them come alive again. A generational thing. MiSTer, FPGAArcade, Vampire accelerators and even AmigaOS 3.1.4, the whole retro RPi movements with RetroPie etc, and now this too! It’s happening on so many fronts. FPGA’s (like used in this project too) have surely affected this movement as well.
- foobarian 6y agoI don't know if it's generational, maybe it is. But try as I could I can't buy a modern computer today that matches what Spectrums could do: 1) switch on machine 2) wait half a second 3) start typing BASIC code. Maybe if the PICO-8 guy would turn that into a hardware product. :-) Further it's possible to completely know the machine and its software layers, and reaching down to assembler is accessible from a pretty young age.
- klelatti 6y agoI know exactly what you mean. The Colour Maximite 2 [1] is the closest I've found to the concept in modern hardware. An ARM Cortex M7 at 400 MHz so two orders of magnitude faster than 8 bit. I don't own one yet but very tempted! [1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
- aidenn0 6y agoMany Arm SBCs that support linux boot very quickly[1]; if you set "init" to be a python interpreter, you'd be pretty close to that. 1: I mean they handoff to linux quickly; actually running a full set of init for linux can be painfully slow, but if you just want a REPL then that should be fast.
- the_af 6y agoI kinda like that PICO-8 is software only. I get anxious about not owning the hardware otherwise (and no, I cannot buy everything that strikes my fancy). This makes all software-only PICO'ers first class citizens.