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TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 5 stories, 22 comments · first 2018-05-02 · latest 2025-12-02

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  1. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki
    comment by FearNotDaniel · 2025-09-19 · in TIC-80 – Tiny Computer
  2. …indeed to buy or build yourself a PRO version, it can work with cartridges in plaintext format. [1] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/import
    comment by archargelod · 2025-09-18 · in TIC-80 – Tiny Computer
  3. You can also build the Pro version yourself for free according to the docs: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/PRO-Version
    comment by echoangle · 2025-09-18 · in TIC-80 – Tiny Computer
  4. There is, but it's one of the few features reserved for the pro version ($10) https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/external-editor
    comment by jsheard · 2025-09-18 · in TIC-80 – Tiny Computer
  5. TIC-80 also has WASM support but is a more capable console IMO. Here for example is a rust template: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/templates/rust
    comment by meisterglanz · 2024-12-05 · in WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
  6. Try TIC80 https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 Very mice, multi programming language support
    comment by daitangio · 2024-09-24 · in Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
  7. …wren, fennel, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added. https://tic80.com https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
    comment by archargelod · 2023-09-13 · in LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
  8. Has a Raspberry Pi bare metal variant, too. As in, boots to the console with no OS underneath. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/build/baremetalpi
    comment by incanus77 · 2022-11-20 · in TIC-80 tiny computer
  9. …[1], another fantasy console/computer. Which is open source [2]. [1]: https://tic80.com/ [2]: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
    comment by Herbstluft · 2022-11-01 · in Pico-8 CPU
  10. …TIC-80 had a proposal of embedding mpython to the engine, so you will be able to write in python: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/issues/935
    comment by huachimingo · 2022-06-08 · in MicroPython – Python for Microcontrollers
  11. …https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php [9] https://tic80.com [10] https://liko-12.github.io/ [11] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/master/build/baremetal... [12] https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/
    comment by incanus77 · 2022-01-06 · in Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC
  12. TIC-80 is also libre, though precompiled "Pro" binaries aren't gratis. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki#pro-version Edit: actually, reading https://github.com/morgan3d/quadplay/blob/main/LICENSE.md it looks like it's only partially…
    comment by boogies · 2021-12-09 · in MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua
  13. …(interesting license) but I agree. It would be awesome for PICO-8 to be free (libre) software. [0] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 [1] https://github.com/PixelVision8/PixelVision8
    comment by crispyalmond · 2021-10-02 · in PICO-8 – Fantasy Console
  14. For a free and open source alternative I recommend checking out TIC-80: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
    comment by Audiophilip · 2021-07-04 · in Pico-8 API Cheatsheet
  15. …complexities of HTML5+CSS+javascript+tooling for in-browser programming. [1] https://tic80.com/ [2] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki [3] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki#special-functions
    comment by dvdkhlng · 2020-10-15 · in Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale
  16. As you can see here: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/releases/tag/v0.80.1344
    comment by mkesper · 2020-09-29 · in TIC-80 version 0.80
  17. …it's open source, which had lead to some nice community additions like the recent 3DS port[1] [0] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/master/build/n3ds [1] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/releases/tag/v0.80-beta
    comment by vanderZwan · 2020-09-08 · in Tic-80 Tiny Computer
  18. One that I've kicked around with is TIC-80: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 A bit more generous with the system resources, but PICO-8 does have a bigger community and "carts" to download and poke around with.
    comment by tunaoftheland · 2019-12-12 · in Software Library: MS-DOS Games
  19. Ha! Hi-res editor mode is on the roadmap: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/issues/723#issuecomment-419...
    comment by jpfed · 2018-10-18 · in Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?
  20. …support Fennel "natively". I have done a similar process with TIC-80 despite knowing very little C: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/pull/597 > What about Common Lisp libraries? would they be transpiled too? No, Common Lisp is a completely…
    comment by technomancy · 2018-09-18 · in Fennel – Lisp in Lua
  21. …users who can't spend the money, we made it easy to build the pro version from the source code." https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80#pro-version https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/Makefile
    comment by fenwick67 · 2018-05-02 · in TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming
  22. TIC-80 has the exact same license (MIT): https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by fenwick67 · 2018-05-02 · in TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming