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I just purchased and downloaded PICO-8 for my raspberry pi, and when I try to boot it it will not. When I double click on the file, I am asked to execute it, which I do. After this, it open for a half second before closing immediately.

Is there anything else I need to do in order to open it correctly?

P#97501 2021-09-18 22:39

Are you running the stock Raspberry Pi 32-bit OS?

P#97502 2021-09-18 22:49

Yes, I believe I am.

P#97505 2021-09-18 23:28

Hmmmm, well it may be worth trying to run it from the terminal instead of double-clicking the file just to see if any error messages show up that you wouldn't otherwise see. I am able to run it successfully from the terminal on Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 4b.

P#97506 2021-09-18 23:41

When I opened it from the terminal, I received a message saying "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console"

P#97507 2021-09-18 23:59

Hmmmm, definitely haven't run into that. Just in case it helps, all I do to get it running is this (I unzipped PICO-8 in my home folder):

~> cd pico-8
~/pico-8> ./pico8 -windowed 1

And it opens in windowed mode (on RPi and my Manjaro laptop both, I find that it starts full screen by default without that flag, but you can also change the flag value in ~/.lexaloffle/pico-8/config.txt to run windowed by default).

EDIT: I should also mention that I am pretty much using Raspberry Pi OS exactly as it came on the card with my Pi plus whatever updates were available after installation.

P#97510 2021-09-19 00:54 ( Edited 2021-09-19 00:56)
:: merwok

Do you get different results if you try 'pico8' and 'pico8_dyn'?

P#97512 2021-09-19 00:54

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