PICO-8 for Raspberry Pi

bootload · on Feb 28, 2016

Very interesting project. Background info here ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189329 and here http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php The Pico-8 is a subset of the work being done on Voxatron ~ http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php

eggy · on Feb 28, 2016

I play enough with PICO-8 and VOX on my PC that I should get a dedicated Pi just for this! It's amazing how much fun it is playing other people's games, and starting to work on your own. Great to teach little ones programming.

PascLeRasc · on Feb 28, 2016

Slightly off-topic, but can someone confirm if it's actually bad/electrically dangerous to run composite video through RCA audio cables? It's visible in the first image.

cdcarter · on Feb 28, 2016

"Proper" RCA audio cables are 75 ohm impedance and can carry composite video just fine. Lower quality cables will most likely carry the video but you may see degraded quality. It is not electrically dangerous.

fit2rule · on Feb 29, 2016

I'm reminded of LOAD81, from antirez, which is another of these "throwback to the times when computing was easier" style of user interfaces:

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Fun stuff! :)

robohamburger · on Feb 28, 2016

I haven't even cracked open the sprite editor or tracker yet but a dedicated PICO-8 box would be awesome to have in the living room as a sort of coffee table computer.

nefitty · on Feb 28, 2016

Just got done working on plans for my living room. This would be a cool addition, but I don't know if my lady would dig it haha