Your Fantasy Workstation
Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for making pixelart games, animations, music, demos and other curiosities. It has a toy operating system designed to be a cosy creative space, but runs on top of Windows, MacOS or Linux. Picotron apps can be made with built-in tools, and shared with other users in a special 256k png cartridge format.Specifications
Display: 480x270 / 240x135 64 definable coloursGraphics: Blend tables, tline3d, stencil clipping
Audio: 64-node synth and 8-channel tracker
Code: Lua 5.4 w/ PICO-8 compatibility features
CPU: 8M Lua VM insts / second
Cart: .p64.png (256k ROM data) / .p64 (unlimited)
Customize your Machine
Make your own live wallpapers, screensavers, widgets, custom tools, and set up workflows just the way you like! Or have a look around the BBS to see what other cartridge authors are up to.
// Example Wallpaper by castpixel
Status: Alpha
Picotron is brand new! It is still mostly held together by duct tape, but the runtime and API are fairly complete, and the current binaries allow basic editing code, graphics, maps and sound, and exporting to .p64.png to share on the BBS. Web exporters are coming soon!
Get Picotron
Until the end of March, Picotron is available for just $11.99. After that it will cost $19.99, or $11.99 when purchased with other fantasy consoles. All future updates are included, and the binaries are DRM-free, for Windows, Mac and Linux.