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spicybright on July 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpriteStack Voxel Editor

I have so many questions. The only thing I know about pico8 is it's a VM for very low end hardware, it used a hexidecimal numpad as it's interface, and black and white.

I just ran the download from the website and it's so much more than that. Are there any other resources to learn more about this?

Ivoah on July 10, 2021 [–]

What you're thinking of is CHIP-8[1]. PICO-8[2] is similar in spirit, though much more powerful. It's a constrained (in memory, code size, and cpu cycles) lua environment tied to a 128x128 16 color display.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

[2] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

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