Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create and share cute Lua apps that can run on the Picotron desktop, be shared as cartridge files, or exported as stand-alone HTML and binary distributables.
Specifications
Display: 480x270
Cosy Filesystem
Audio: PFX6416
8M inst/sec
256k Cartridges
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Fantasy Desktop
Picotron comes with a cute desktop interface featuring tabbed workspaces and a fold-out tooltray that is accessible from any workspace. The tooltray acts as a second desktop for handy access to frequently used files and widgets. Files can also be dropped on top of each other to form tidy stacks that are shuffleable with the mousewheel.
Bundled Tools
Use the built-in editors or create your own! The included editors for code, graphics, tile maps, music and sound effects are themselves all made in Picotron and use standard /system/lib libraries for handling things like unlimited undo stacks, gui, and file management.
Next Generation Fantasy Hardware
Picotron is built on tightly integrated, flexible graphics and audio pipelines that can happily run on low powered host machines and web. They each come with a simple-to-use API for handling common things like drawing a colour-swapped sprite or triggering a sound effect, but the underlying data and machine state is all exposed in virtual RAM, offering a myriad of possibilities for those willing to venture down the rabbithole.Status: Alpha
Picotron 0.2 is still new, but has a relatively complete API, binary and HTML exporters and BBS cartridge browsing. See the roadmap for future plans:
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Until 2025-03-14 2025-05-14, existing PICO-8 and Voxatron customers can also upgrade with a discount
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