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TIC-80 tiny computer
- smyhill 4y ago
- Shared404 4y agoAlternately, an equivalent with the goal of providing an open source alternative. The two can coexist. In addition, those who are interested in these will likely enjoy Uxn: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoIt is. But with less artificial restrictions. You can actually make decent-size games in it (without resorting to obscene amounts of hacking).
- xmonkee 4y agoi spent a very happy month last year making a game with tic80. Honestly its better than pico8 for me: better aspect ratio, standard lua lib instead of a knock-off, and very stable etc
- subtra3t 4y agoI'd advise you to get a deeper and better look at it before passing such comments.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 4y agoWhat an ignorant and unnecessarily dismissive comment. While Pico8 did kick off the popularity of "fantasy consoles", there are a number of them now, Pixel Vision 8 [1] would be another example. TIC-80's specs [2] are different as well. [1]:https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/ https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/ [2]: https://tic80.com/learn https://tic80.com/learn
- incanus77 4y agoHas a Raspberry Pi bare metal variant, too. As in, boots to the console with no OS underneath. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/build/baremetalpi https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/build/baremetalpi
- Applejinx 4y agoOh, that's interesting. That makes the whole thing a LOT more like an 'actual computer'. Way more interesting to my mind if you include 'and it can run as a replacement OS on this very commonly available hardware, which you're used to seeing with a whole UNIX inside'. That means anything TIC-80 can do, can also incorporate teeny hardware to host it.
- userbinator 4y agoThe name is a little too reminiscent of a graphing calculator.
- quickthrower2 4y agoAnd Tandy TRS-80
- indigochill 4y agoAnd TIS-100
- drewbitt 4y agoI created many games for the TI-84 and TI-92 so this is in-theme for me.
- xmonkee 4y agoI made this game last year after my first year as a parent. Its also my first ever game and the most fun bits for me were learning how to make the music and sprites. I had no prior experience with either but with tic80 you just kinda open the tab and do it. https://tic80.com/play?cart=2586 https://tic80.com/play?cart=2586 If you’re like me, you probably love spending the holidays doing advent of code or something. Maybe write a game this year :)
- adenozine 4y agoThe clock doesn't stop upon a game over state. Love the idea, very cute.
- ddyevf635372 4y agoThis is really cool. Well done! Congratulations! You should make more games and programs. :)
- askvictor 4y agoI love how F6 simulates a CRT screen, to give the full 80's experience
- alamortsubite 4y agoThanks, ROAD TXTR made my day. https://tic80.com/play?cart=3043 https://tic80.com/play?cart=3043
- Antrikshy 4y agoYup! Very clever game.
- carnundotcom 4y agoWorth noting (for parenthesis-lovers!) the Fennel support added by Phil Hagelberg, as demoed e.g. in one of his Lisp Game Jam writeups here: https://technomancy.us/193 https://technomancy.us/193
- bitwize 4y agoIt occurred to me recently that, arguably, the first "fantasy console" was CHIP-8. So projects like this keep alive a very old microcomputing tradition.
- aquova 4y agoI've played around a bit with TIC-80, but I always find myself going back to Pico-8. The larger resolution is nice, but I find in a weird way I'm able to do more with the stricter limitation of Pico-8 than the more lenient TIC-80. Take the sprites for example, Pico-8 you're locked into the same 16 colors all the time (there's actually another secret palette, but it's a bit of a hassle to use), where as TIC-80 you also have a 16-color palette, but you can change those colors to be anything you wish. I find that additional freedom to be almost paralyzing, and many aspects of the system are like that for me.
- ck2 4y agoFor a moment I daydreamed this was a reference to the 1980 PC-1 computer from Radio Shack http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html Three years before the well known PC100 laptop sized popular with journalists, etc. Had one, thought it was the amazing future, I guess smartphones are the great-great-great-grandchilden.
- mlindner 4y agoI find it interesting they limit the music capabilities to something approximating an NES/gameboy rather than going with a sample/tracker-based system like on the Amiga. That was what really good games of that early era used. (There's an incessant mind bug that these retro computer things need to either use bips and boops or support full .wav playback with no inbetween.)
- tmountain 4y agoTICO-80 rocks! The TIC-80 support for multiple programming languages inspired me to write a TypeScript -> Lua transpiler for PICO-8. https://github.com/tmountain/pico-8-typescript https://github.com/tmountain/pico-8-typescript
- newswasboring 4y agoBest thing about TIC-80 for me is it's Android app. I can use it on my tablet with a keyboard to have a whole game dev environment. I don't think there is any other equivalent of this on mobile devices. I don't know if it's a usecase for anyone else, but I love it.
- Rabidgremlin 4y agoI did the same thing on a road trip when I was bored... Worked really well.. created a video on the experience https://youtu.be/FxQpRoZI3kM https://youtu.be/FxQpRoZI3kM
- Silasdev 4y agoThe game, DRIVING TEST, was surprisingly simple, challenging and fun. https://tic80.com/play?cart=3045 https://tic80.com/play?cart=3045 Thumbs up!