What does HackerNews think of TIC-80?
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
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C
> Final plug is of course PICO8.
Cannot not mention a Tic80. It is a FOSS alternative to PICO8.
Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, moonscript, ruby, squirrel, wren, fennel, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.
Always worth mentioning is TIC-80 [1], another fantasy console/computer. Which is open source [2].
[1]: https://tic80.com/
There is TIC-80[0] and PixelVision8[1] (interesting license) but I agree. It would be awesome for PICO-8 to be free (libre) software.
For a free and open source alternative I recommend checking out TIC-80: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
One that I've kicked around with is TIC-80: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
A bit more generous with the system resources, but PICO-8 does have a bigger community and "carts" to download and poke around with.