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:…
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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 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: https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/meg4/ It might not look like much at first glance, but it surely shows its strengths when you start using it (for example automatic API help as you type in the code editor, or invoking the built-in debugger if your script crashes, things like that which makes development easy and fun). Also check out its well-structured and comprehensive documentation: https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/meg4/manual_en.html Binaries are provided for emscripten (web), Windows, Linux (statically linked SDL and GLFW3+portaudio, dynamically linked deb package for Ubuntu and RaspiOS). It is still in early in development, but almost feature complete. At this stage, expect minor bugs here and there, but should work most of the time. The interface is already translated to 25 languages, but the built-in help and the user manual is only available in English for now. Let me know what you think!
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