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Is there a way to change the demos and carts folder location? I would prefer it in my home folder. It's much easier to access the users home folder than the support folder.

Something like this...
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/Carts/"
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/Demos/"
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/HTML/" <--For exported html projects.

That's two clicks compared to the current five, in order to get to that folder.

I'm new to PICO-8, so if I've missed something about this, I apologize. ;)

P#19583 2016-04-04 09:37 ( Edited 2016-04-04 23:03)

Just wanted to add that CDing to the "Demos" and "Carts" folders at the command prompt in PICO-8 would still be easy. Plus accessing the "HTML" and "Carts" folder for uploading or sharing would be simple too!

P#19586 2016-04-04 10:08 ( Edited 2016-04-04 14:08)

Don't forget about the "folder" command in pico-8, which opens up the carts folder in Finder. You could also just make an alias to the pico-8 folder. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19065?locale=en_US

P#19588 2016-04-04 10:29 ( Edited 2016-04-04 14:29)

Just create a symlink. Not totally familiar with how the pico-8 directory structure works for the Mac version, but with Linux I open a terminal, navigate to my home directory and run:

ln -s .lexaloffe/pico-8/carts/ pico8_carts

(The same command works on Mac)

And now you have a directory called "pico8_carts" in your home directory that links to the contents of the real carts directory. If you delete it from your home directory it won't affect the real carts directory; it's just a link. But while it's there you can treat it like that's actually where it is in your file system.

P#19589 2016-04-04 10:58 ( Edited 2016-04-04 15:01)

There's a direct solution to changing the cart directory, no symlink required. Open ~/Library/Application Support/pico-8/config.txt in a text editor, and look for "root_path". The "Library" is hidden in Finder by default, but you can use Finder's Go > Go to Folder... menu option to get there.

Be sure that Pico-8 is not running when you edit config.txt. Pico-8 writes this file based on its in-memory settings when it quits, so it'll undo changes made while it is running.

P#19590 2016-04-04 12:49 ( Edited 2016-04-04 16:49)

Thanks for all the feedback!

@dddaaannn, Thanks man, that works great! :D

I also noticed an FPS setting but the text is too small to read on OS X. Not sure what it's like on Windows or Linux?

P#19597 2016-04-04 18:42 ( Edited 2016-04-04 22:42)

It's difficult to read, small and dark, but I can (barely) make out what it says.

P#19599 2016-04-04 19:03 ( Edited 2016-04-04 23:03)

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