Okay this is not a bug but it bugs me XD

I have a portable console, the RGB30, that is my PICO-8 physical console, I run only PICO-8.

I would like to be able to see the battery level and being able to setup the WiFi from SPLORE or with a specific app it would be fine as well, but without requiring me to quit PICO-8.

In my ideal world I setup the OS to boot in PICO-8 and just have fun with it.

Oh yes, there should be a way to power off the console as well without quitting PICO-8.

I there any chance I can dream about it to be a reality someday?

Thank you <3
Gianluca

Seems like something to ask the rgb30 community, not pico8

so there are two parts in this question.

the easy one: how to boot fast to pico-8, how to exit when pico-8 exits: that’s regular OS configuration with lots of advice that can be found, and yes you should search for existing tutorials and ask specific points in an rgb30 forum (although there are people here with that console too!)

the hard part: communicating information between the OS and pico-8. you will need to write a custom cart here, and put together a few separate ideas:

• the battery state can be read from a file (depends on the OS)
• wifi status can be read, but would probably need a custom script to turn on/off
• pico-8 can read files in the OS and/or communicate with other processes if you start your cart with specific params: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html#Serial
• your cart can run splore, or implement something like splore using ls and cd functions

so I think this is all possible, if you have the desire to explore all of these things and experiment with custom programming!