Meg-4, the Open Source PICO-8 alternative
Hi fellow hackers, I've created a GPL licensed alternative to the proprietary PICO-8. It also addresses most of its shortcomings: - multilanguage support - uses UTF-8 encoding (BMP only) - sophisticated user input methods (direct codepoint, composition, Hiragana and Katakana etc.) - provides a large and efficient API library for your scripts - supports C, BASIC, Assembly and Lua scripts (more to come) - supports wide variety of file formats (Amiga MOD, MIDI, Tiled TMX, PNG, etc.) - capable of importing PICO-8 and TIC-80 cartridges - runs in your browser:…
Meg-4, the Open Source PICO-8 alternative launched on June 16, 2023 with 6 votes, #1,856 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
fantasy console, C
MEG-4 (pronouned as "MEGA", ˈmegə ) is my take on the virtual fantasy game console genre, similar to PICO-8 and TIC-80, but simpler to use, more featureful, and much more performant. A MEG-4 (kiejtve "MEGA", ˈmegə ) az én virtuális fantázia konzol implementációm, olyan, mint a PICO-8 és TIC-80, de könnyebb használni, többet tud, és sokkal, de sokkal gyorsabb azoknál. MEG-4 (ausgesprochen als "MEGA", ˈmegə ) ist meine Interpretation des Genres der virtuellen Fantasy-Spielekonsolen, ähnlich wie PICO-8 und TIC-80, aber einfacher zu verwenden, funktionsreicher und viel leistungsfähiger . MEG-4 (prononcé comme "MEGA", ˈmegə ) est mon point de vue sur le genre de console de jeu de fantasy…from bztsrc.gitlab.io
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Hi fellow hackers, I've created a GPL licensed alternative to the proprietary PICO-8. It also addresses most of its shortcomings: - multilanguage support - uses UTF-8 encoding (BMP only) - sophisticated user input methods (direct codepoint, composition, Hiragana and Katakana etc.) - provides a large and efficient API…
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