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Shenzhen Solitaire

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:49:03 UTC

Shenzhen Solitaire

by Ivoah

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I ported Shenzhen Solitaire to PICO-8. I made this a while ago but have only just now gotten around to posting it. It should handle all cases correctly, but please let me know if you run into any bugs.

I am not musically inclined at all, so if someone would like to help by translating the music to PICO-8 that'd be awesome.

Controls:

Z: select/move card(s), press dragon buttons
X: swap between free cells and table

Left/Right: move cursor (wraps around screen)
Up/Down: grab multiple cards (if able)

Rules can be found here: https://shenzhen-io.fandom.com/wiki/Shenzhen_Solitaire

Tiny-TV Boxman

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:56:54 UTC

Tiny-TV Boxman

by Ivoah

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Here's my entry for the Tiny-TV contest.
It's a port of one of my other games, Boxman
Dpad to move, and down will make the box fall faster.
Pressing z or x on the death screen will restart.

Trains

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:09:55 UTC

Trains

by Ivoah

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A calculator forum I'm part of (cemetech.net, check 'em out!) was holding a programming contest recently.
The goal was to make a calculator game with the theme "trains".
My initial goal was to make my game in PICO-8 and then port it to the Nspire calculator, which also uses Lua.
I finished the PICO-8 part, but never got it ported :(
You can play the PICO-8 version though :D
There isn't any actual game, it's just a simple train sim.
The controls should be pretty intuitive, you can combine tracks by laying them on top of each other.

EDIT: Updated with smoke!

Trains

by Ivoah

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PocketCHIP ships with PICO-8

Tue, 03 May 2016 08:09:21 UTC

According to this website, the PocketCHIP is going to be shipping with PICO-8. Zep, do you have any comments on this? Will PocketCHIP owners be getting updates?

C.H.I.P. $9 computer

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:08:06 UTC

So apparently the raspberry pi build of PICO-8 works on the C.H.I.P.!
https://youtu.be/eT3q8U1zQWE?t=2m30s

Boxman

Tue, 12 Apr 2016 01:19:48 UTC

Boxman

by Ivoah

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I ported a game originally for the TI-84+ CSE calculator to PICO-8!
Try to stay alive for as long as possible and climb high as crates fall from the sky.

Left - right and z - x move your character.

Original game
Credit goes to Botboy3000

Editor colors

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:21:01 UTC

I mentioned this issue a while ago, but it seems zep didn't see it. The color of the cursor is too similar to the background color of the editor, and makes it very hard for colorblind people such as myself to see where it actually is.

128x128 LCD and reading memory

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:03:48 UTC

So, for anyone who didn't see on twitter, I recently bought a tiny 128x128 LCD, and got around to using it yesterday. https://twitter.com/NoahRosamilia/status/681585285013045252

When I first started it took around 85 seconds to transfer one full image, but with a bit of optimizing coughstealingotherpeoplescodecough I can now update the screen at ~50 FPS. I remember people talking about reading PICO-8's memory from another program (for networking stuff, I think). I was wondering if anybody had some clues for getting the PICO-8 screen data from a python script.

Sinusoids

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:44:30 UTC

Sinusoids

by Ivoah

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I made this program for a contest on CodeWalrus

The contest rules were to make something fun in <= 140 chars or tokens.

Controls

up+down: change bar size
left+right: change speed

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:03:16 UTC

BBS Suggestion

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:11:32 UTC

It'd be nice if the BBS also showed the name of the last person to post, perhaps right under (or even instead of) the name of the person who started the thread. Every other forum I'm a part of does this, and it's really nice.

Nyan Cat

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:59:57 UTC

Nyan 0.3

by Ivoah

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Nyan 0.2

by Ivoah

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Nyan Cat 0.1

by Ivoah

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I decided that PICO-8 needed a nyan cat, so I made it. I still have to finish the cat part of nyan cat, but that'll come when I get home and have some decent tools.

Music courtesy of Juju

Ports

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:44:52 UTC

I was talking with zep on twitter about a possible Nspire CX (graphing calculator) port, but he said the hardware isn't powerful enough. What are the requirements? I would think that ~130 MHz would be plenty for a lua interpreter + extras. Even if an Nspire port is impossible, it'd be totally possible to get it running on an OpenPandora console. It's got a full querty keyboard, 1 GHz ARM CPU, and 512 MB of RAM. Any other platforms that it would be fun to have a port on?

Bug report

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:57:36 UTC

Pico-8 doesn't support multiline comments anymore, eg:

print("Hello")
--[[
This is a
multiline
comment
]]
print("world!")

3Demo

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:24:38 UTC

3Demo

by Ivoah

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