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Hello.

I am understanding I am not to write a program that allows you to import/export PNG files to and from P8 cartridges, so I wrote this in an attempt to assist other Pico-8 users of the educational edition since they cannot import or export graphics or music.

It uses a variance of the graphics for the little library I wrote, the first Picotron program written found HERE:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=50942

I exchanged the spider and bomb for Forest (tree) and rubble which can double as mountains. There are some miscellaneous sound effects and I also added a musical note player that overlaps the notes as they play so they sound better.

Cart #p8edulib-1 | 2023-02-04 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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(v01 02-04-23)
TO LOAD THIS PICO-8 CART, in immediate mode, type: load #p8edulib

-- educational edition library
-- written by dw817 (02-03-23)

-- standard pico-8 ⌂ license.

-- useful for either the
-- educational edition of
-- pico-8 or the lazy coder
-- in all of us. :)

function _init()

-- clear screen.
 cls()

-- this string contains all 128
-- 8x8 pixeled characters.
-- it includes uppercase
-- letters, lowercase letters,
-- and 32-special gaming
-- characters. they are in no
-- way compressed. if you want
-- compressed, let me know and
-- i will write the code for
-- it.
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-- draw out all 128-characters
-- so you can see what they
-- look like.
  for i=0,7 do
    for j=0,15 do
      print8(chr(j+i*16+32),j,i)
    end
  end

-- simple text.
-- notice i am swapping upper/
-- lower case so uppercase is
-- printed by default and
-- lowercase is achieved by
-- pressing ctrl+p for puny
-- mode and again to return
-- back to normal typing.
print8("\130 hello world! \130",0,12)

-- play all 8 notes, up an
-- octave, then sharps for
-- them.
music8("[cdefgab]c.cdefgab]c")
music8("[c#d#e#f#g#a#b#]c#.")
music8("c#d#e#f#g#a#b#]c#")

end

-- just loop forever.
function _update()
end

-- custom print 8x8 character
-- from included font stored in
-- global string fontz.
-- t = text to print.
-- use \128 to \159 for special
-- characters.
-- each character is separated
-- by 8-pixels horizontally and
-- 8-pixels vertically.
-- x = x-position (0-15).
-- y = y-position (0-15).
-- 82-tokens or 179-chars.
function print8(t,x,y)local s,a=sub for i=1,#t do a=(ord(s(t,i,i))-32)*64+1for j=0,7do poke4(24576+4*x+512*y+j*64,"0x"..(s(fontz,a,a+3).."."..s(fontz,a+4,a+7)))a+=8end x+=1end end

-- some simple sound effects
-- you may want to have in your
-- carts.

function sfxup()print("\ax1c")end

function sfxdown()print("\ax3c")end

function sfxshot()print("\ax3p5c")end

function sfxhiboom()print("\as~i6x3c5")end

function sfxloboom()print("\as~i6x3c1")end

function sfxwalk()print("\as3i6x3c3.c2")end

function sfxbip()print("\as2i7x5c5")end

function sfxbop()print("\as2i7x5c3")end

function sfxbeep()print("\a")end

-- play musical notes.
-- use a b c d e f g for notes.
-- use [ to decrease octave.
-- use ] to increase octave.
-- use . to skip a note.
-- use # to play sharp note ie:
-- a# b#
-- use - to play flat note ie:
-- a- b-
function music8(t)local s,a,p,c,d=sub,0,3for i=1,#t do c=s(t,i+a,i+a)d=s(t,i+1+a,i+1+a)if d=="#"or d=="-"then c=c..d a+=1end if c=="["then p=max(0,p-1)elseif c=="]"then p=min(5,p+1)else print("\^d9 \as\200i7x5"..c..p,0,0)end if i+a>=#t then break end end end

Users of the educational edition of Pico-8, you can copy this code by clipboard and paste directly in your source-code. It not only has 128-characters and game sprites but a fairly robust library of sound effects and the ability to play notes overlapping each other.

If you found this helpful or have further questions, please let me know.

Thanks !

P#125285 2023-02-04 06:28 ( Edited 2023-02-04 19:54)

thats really cool! i switch between edu and desktop a lot so this is really helpful and cool! thank you!

P#125342 2023-02-05 05:05

You are more than welcome, @AntiBrain.

I realize I could just post a cart making use of the spritesheet and SFX table normally, yet by keeping the entire program to 7-bit text ensures that any part of it can be easily ported to any other Pico-8 educational edition code without having to enter either GFX or SFX editor.

P#125344 2023-02-05 05:59

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