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I love what you did there! It's an awesome project. I directly traveled back to my childhood. While I love pico8, I think it's a decade too early for me. I grew up with desktop and gui. This feels like buying a CD again.

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You might also be interested in Picotron[1], made by the same guy who made Pico8. It's basically a desktop OS with the same basic design as Pico8 but with slightly looser restrictions. I've never really tried it, only looked at his gifs once a long time ago, but I think he and I had the same basic idea: make a platform that you could make pico8 in. We just went different routes.

[1] https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

It just occurred to me:

Pico8 is to Picotron, as Tic80 is to 90s.dev

or

Pico8 is to Tic80, as Picotron is to 90s.dev

Whoa

Thank you! Yes, I'm aware of picotron, I tried the very first version of it. I think it's also a great environment. I first bought Voxatron years ago, because I really liked the tech behind it, and got kinda sad that it didn't evolve.

Anyways, thanks for pointing me to picotron! Think I'll have to keep an eye on both projects.^^

Thanks. Oh man I remember buying Voxatron and thinking it was such a cool idea, but not knowing how to use it at all or what to do with it beyond the demos. I guess the guy behind it probably ran into the same issue. Still a cool idea.

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