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[dead] smyhill
Shared404
Alternately, an equivalent with the goal of providing an open source alternative.

The two can coexist. In addition, those who are interested in these will likely enjoy Uxn: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

hypertele-Xii
It is. But with less artificial restrictions. You can actually make decent-size games in it (without resorting to obscene amounts of hacking).
xmonkee
i spent a very happy month last year making a game with tic80. Honestly its better than pico8 for me: better aspect ratio, standard lua lib instead of a knock-off, and very stable etc
subtra3t
I'd advise you to get a deeper and better look at it before passing such comments.
incanus77
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

Applejinx
Oh, that's interesting. That makes the whole thing a LOT more like an 'actual computer'. Way more interesting to my mind if you include 'and it can run as a replacement OS on this very commonly available hardware, which you're used to seeing with a whole UNIX inside'.

That means anything TIC-80 can do, can also incorporate teeny hardware to host it.

userbinator
The name is a little too reminiscent of a graphing calculator.
drewbitt
I created many games for the TI-84 and TI-92 so this is in-theme for me.
xmonkee
I made this game last year after my first year as a parent. Its also my first ever game and the most fun bits for me were learning how to make the music and sprites. I had no prior experience with either but with tic80 you just kinda open the tab and do it.

https://tic80.com/play?cart=2586

If you’re like me, you probably love spending the holidays doing advent of code or something. Maybe write a game this year :)

adenozine
The clock doesn't stop upon a game over state.

Love the idea, very cute.

ddyevf635372
This is really cool. Well done! Congratulations! You should make more games and programs. :)
askvictor
I love how F6 simulates a CRT screen, to give the full 80's experience
CarnunMP
Worth noting (for parenthesis-lovers!) the Fennel support added by Phil Hagelberg, as demoed e.g. in one of his Lisp Game Jam writeups here: https://technomancy.us/193
bitwize
It occurred to me recently that, arguably, the first "fantasy console" was CHIP-8.

So projects like this keep alive a very old microcomputing tradition.

aquova
I've played around a bit with TIC-80, but I always find myself going back to Pico-8. The larger resolution is nice, but I find in a weird way I'm able to do more with the stricter limitation of Pico-8 than the more lenient TIC-80. Take the sprites for example, Pico-8 you're locked into the same 16 colors all the time (there's actually another secret palette, but it's a bit of a hassle to use), where as TIC-80 you also have a 16-color palette, but you can change those colors to be anything you wish. I find that additional freedom to be almost paralyzing, and many aspects of the system are like that for me.
ck2
For a moment I daydreamed this was a reference to the 1980 PC-1 computer from Radio Shack

http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html

Three years before the well known PC100 laptop sized popular with journalists, etc.

Had one, thought it was the amazing future, I guess smartphones are the great-great-great-grandchilden.

mlindner
I find it interesting they limit the music capabilities to something approximating an NES/gameboy rather than going with a sample/tracker-based system like on the Amiga. That was what really good games of that early era used. (There's an incessant mind bug that these retro computer things need to either use bips and boops or support full .wav playback with no inbetween.)
newswasboring
Best thing about TIC-80 for me is it's Android app. I can use it on my tablet with a keyboard to have a whole game dev environment. I don't think there is any other equivalent of this on mobile devices. I don't know if it's a usecase for anyone else, but I love it.