Hi,
just wanted to post this here ... pico8 could easily run in a console window (without sdl) ...
webcam in console window with color
gameboy in console window (b/w)
Think of it, ... typing in a fantasy console prints several characters in a real console ;)
Greetings,
movAX13h


I'm not sure his console window is a real console window. It looks more like it's a configurable console simulator. A real console window isn't going to give you 4px x 4px characters, for instance, and thus typically you're not going to get a 320ch x 240ch console to fit on anything less than a 4k monitor. This would be especially true for a genuine text-mode command prompt, though I think those are vanishingly rare these days, even in BIOS screens.
Still, PICO-8 needs only a small number of colors, many of which could be approximated (but not matched) by the basic set of dos or ansi colors. If you used tall glyphs (something close to 1:2 aspect) and then use the half-character graphics blocks combined with fg+bg colors to get two chunky pixels per character, you could probably get something close to a real command prompt PICO-8. The colors would be off, but oh well.
Neat idea.


I've just tried it using his class. The console interpolates at smaller sizes which results in a interesting and kind of authentic retro look. You can try it yourself, just download the examples, create a new c++ console application, include the olcConsoleGameEngine.h and one of the example cpp files (play with the font size settings) and hit compile&run.
https://github.com/OneLoneCoder/videos


Ah, I see. It's a terminology thing.
To me, a console app is a stdio-only command-line app. In windows, you'd run it in either the command prompt or the powershell. In linux, a terminal window.
His apps are interfacing directly with the windows "Console" API, which the command prompt and powershell use to simulate oldschool text modes in a window.
So technically they're text-based, but they aren't standard command-line/command prompt/powershell apps.
Interesting to learn about that API. I didn't know it was exposed. Could be useful...
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