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

Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by RadioHacker on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:10PM (#20741861)

Interesting that it's just an "8-bit look" but not really "8-bit". Code is written in Lua which will be either 32- or 64- bit depending on what platform the Lua interpreter is compiled on.

(From the name, I went to read the docs, because I thought they emulated an "ideal" 8-bit processor, too.)

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Re:Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constraine... by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:39AM (#20748175)

Yeah, it's all on the Lua VM. It does behave kinda like an 8-bit computer in that you can go poking around in the RAM to create various effects or glitches.

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