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  1. a while back I learned about LFT's four-kilobyte #c64 album "Machine Yearning" and thought it sounded like a fascinating challenge to try and figure out how to port it to #pico8 . I've got that port now to a point where I think it's pretty much as finished as it's going to get: lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159316

    I still think LFT's original album sounds better, but I'm still pretty pleased with how this ended up coming out. Some tracks survived the porting process better than others, but tracks 1,2,6 in particular I think came across pretty well.

    The actual song data (which is implemented as, essentially, code for a VM) is completely unchanged from the original; the porting process essentially consisted of reverse-engineering the VM, writing an equivalent interpreter for it in PICO-8 Lua, and then figuring out how to try and approximate the SID chip with PICO-8's PCM output.

    Coming at this starting with basically zero audio knowledge, I found the project very educational!

  2. Half-way point of #Pico1k jam!
    🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026
    So far...
    👥 102 Joined
    💾 36 Entries
    itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026/entri
    You still have until end of Sep to create
    🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools
    in #Pico8 (or #Picotron) using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
    #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding

  3. Can I mine sweep a dungeon? 💣

    Yes, but it will cost me part if mine sanity. Jokes aside other than a few small grumbles Intervium is a lovely mix between a minesweeper and a dungeon crawler, check it out if one of these fancies your gaming taste!

    youtube.com/watch?v=x5pr1br1YeY

    #pico8 #indiegames

  4. aquí un minutico de lo que presentamos en el encuentro con el ArcoExpandido.

    *la pieza se llama Forms 2 de Julian Valdivieso.

    #Music #experimental #noise #Bass #pico8

  5. "You've lost"
    Again. You feel exhausted and beaten. When you enter the parking lot, you realize you have no idea where you've parked your car.

    #pico8 #indiegame #gamejam #1k #pixelart #gamedev

    This is my entry for #pico1k 2026 game jam itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026

    Play here rostok.itch.io/youvelost

  6. Here's another #itch trick. Sometimes, tags aren't your best bet for finding what you want. You can also sort for games made with a particular tool, framework or programming language by replacing tag- with made-by- in the URL, provided that they were listed by the creator. So, for example, itch.io/games/made-with-pico-8 shows games made with #pico8. You can combine that with the "paid" filter and .xml to get a feed of Pico-8 games that likely aren't on the Lexaloffle BBS: itch.io/games/made-with-pico-8

  7. New silly game idea, Billy the Beach Bum: Go around collecting ingredients for tiki drinks. Maybe a winter project, and a good project for learning multi-cart game building in #pico8 #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev

  8. Got the house to myself this morning, so I'm being crazy...

    No, actually I finally started playing Ascent DX by @johanpeitz on the Switch.

    #VideoGames #pico8 #Switch

  9. And a level selector. Pasting levels will still be an option.

    #Pico8 #GameDev

  10. Working on post-jam improvements: better graphics for the clocks and an option to switch between analogue and digital.

    #Pico8 #GameDev

  11. Hi ! I just wrote some music with #pico8 for a friend. The interface is quite horrible but the synths has quite a few interrestings possibilities!

    #music #composer #synth #gamemusic

  12. If you want to play Fox & Clocks & Blocks in a Box on your phone, but have been unable to paste levels into the game, then RealShadowCaster on the BBS has created a solution: a launcher cart that lets you select the level to play from a menu instead of pasting it into the game.

    Play it on the BBS here: lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=195958

    #Pico8 #Pico1k

  13. so here's what it takes to shave off ~60 bytes from a #pico8 cart. not a true #codegolf though, as carts for #pico1k jam use pxa compression and one has to counterintuitively repeat the code to make it similar. well, anyway i managed to put the outro into 4 bytes.