TOtosh·Feb 14, 2022Submission
Retro-8: PICO-8 implementation with SDL2/SDL1.2 and RetroArch back-ends
2 points · Open discussionJakz
retro8
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Jakz / retro8
retro8
PICO-8 implementation with SDL2/SDL1.2 and RetroArch back-ends
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PICO-8 implementation with SDL2/SDL1.2 and RetroArch back-ends
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| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2020 | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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4 sourcesThere's a couple of pico-8 emulators that run on Dingux, the problems they have seem mostly due to incompatibilities rather than computing power
https://github.com/Jakz/retro8
https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350
In ArduboyThere are basically three broad sets of handhelds: OpenDingux devices, ARM Linux devices, and Android ones. The RG350P is an OpenDingux device.
There's a lot of OpenDingux devices- they have MIPS CPUs, so they don't run the same variety of software as the ARM-based ones. There's still a bunch of homebrew for OpenDingux, but it's not exactly organized, compared to Android and Linux devices. It involves hunting down poorly-documented executables, etc. Here's one list of software available:
https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux
There are two Pico-8 emulators that run on those things, tac08 and retro8. They both work on many games, but it's a bit hit-and-miss.
https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 /
https://github.com/Jakz/retro8
However, it is apparently possible to get the official Raspberry Pi version of pico-8 running on the Od
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roid Go Advance, which is an ARM CPU running Linux, just like the RPi.
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=37256&start=8...
Additionally to that, I dug up a version of TIC-80 ( https://tic80.com/ ), an open-source PICO-like environment, compiled for the OpenDingux which will run on the RG350:
https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux/raw/master/E...
Pico-8 implementation with SDL2 and RetroArch back-ends
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