#picotron — Public Fediverse posts

i think #pico8 did a rather interesting thing by using a 16.16 fixed point type on its numbers (meaning that there are 16 bits of information before and after the decimal point, and you can store any number from -32768 to 32767 + (65535/65536.0) in one)

normally, if you're just using them for integers, you get 16 bits of data, which about aligns with old game consoles, where most variables fit into one or two bytes of data, but you can still do some non-integers, and if you want to do 32-bit integers, you can just divide things by 65536 and treat each single bit as if it were an integer -- there's even a special kind of print operator that shows numbers using that trick

i've yet to try out #picotron (i can't buy it right now), but from what i heard, it just uses standard lua floating-point numbers, which probably works better for something that imitates a more complete workstation instead of a game console

1 Week until #PICO1K Jam 2026! 👩‍💻
🌐 https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026
👨‍💻 Make #Pico8 (or #Picotron) carts in ≤ 1KB of code
📅 SEP 1st-30th 2026
What game/demo/tool will YOU make? 🤔
#GameJam #TweetCart #Sizecoding #Demoscene

J'ai adapté l'application calendrier de Picotron pour être cohérente avec les mois et nombre de jours du jeu de rôle solo auquel je suis en train de jouer.

Comme ça je peux afficher la météo, les activités que j'ai faite et prendre des notes dans cette petite console comme si c'était le journal de bord de ma librairie-bateau.

ça me rend jouasse!

#picotron #rpg

Evoke 2026 is this week-end 🔥

"Make a demo!", Evoke 2026 invitro by Haujobb, for Picotron, released at Outline 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6-_xN6_0o

#demoscene #demoparty #picotron #evoke #pixelart #haujobb

#picojam26 DAY ONE!
2日間の #pico8 #picotron オンリーのジャムでオーガナイズします！

明るい雰囲気で、皆んなゲームを作っています♪

Proud coder-dad moment! Vada wanted to learn how to make her own video games this weekend, so we are just starting to learn how to draw things on the screen in Lua on the #Picotron fantasy computer system. 🧑‍💻 https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

With help from @[email protected], my game finally has main menu music!!
I love it so much, it makes me very happy!
Kasdeja The Starcatcher 2 is still being actively worked on, it'll release when it's finished!
#gamedev #picotron #indiedev

40+ years later, here's a #picotron implementation.

█▓▒░ 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ░▒▓█
🌐 https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026
WHAT?
👨‍💻 Make #Pico8 (or #Picotron) Games/Demos/Tools in ≤ 1KB
WHEN?
📅 SEP 1ˢᵗ-30ᵗʰ 2026
Hope to see you at #Pico1k jam! 🤓

#GameJam #Demoscene #TweetCart #Sizecoding

Messing around with boops.

#picotron #chiptune #makestuff #ScreenshotSaturday

Word of advice... Don't run out of torches.

#pixelart #picotron #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #makestuff

Creating games, posting on social media and listening to chiptunes on my retro PICOTRON operating system... What a #fridayfeeling

#pixelart #retrocomputing #retrocomputing #picotron