Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker

Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by RodgerTheGreat on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:10PM (#20741348)

Seems to be missing the original virtual console, CHIP-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by perilunar on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:21PM (#20743103)

I have an ETI-660 that I built in the early 1980's around here somewhere. Possibly it even still works, though I'd need to find an old CRT TV to try. (probably need to replace the capacitors too). Coding in CHIP-8 was my intro to programming.

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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by RodgerTheGreat on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:03PM (#20743280)

I designed and maintain an IDE for CHIP-8 development (http://octo-ide.com) which you might find enjoyable. If you wanted to run your programs on an ETI-660 I could easily make the assembler's base address configurable to suit that machine's memory map.

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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by perilunar on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:00PM (#20743492)

Thanks for the offer, but I'm not even sure if any of my code from that era survives. I'll have a look sometime.

Cool project btw!

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