I just purchased and downloaded PICO-8 for my raspberry pi, and when I try to boot it it will not. When I double click on the file, I am asked to execute it, which I do. After this, it open for a half second before closing immediately.
Is there anything else I need to do in order to open it correctly?
Hmmmm, well it may be worth trying to run it from the terminal instead of double-clicking the file just to see if any error messages show up that you wouldn't otherwise see. I am able to run it successfully from the terminal on Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 4b.
When I opened it from the terminal, I received a message saying "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console"
Hmmmm, definitely haven't run into that. Just in case it helps, all I do to get it running is this (I unzipped PICO-8 in my home folder):
~> cd pico-8 ~/pico-8> ./pico8 -windowed 1 |
And it opens in windowed mode (on RPi and my Manjaro laptop both, I find that it starts full screen by default without that flag, but you can also change the flag value in ~/.lexaloffle/pico-8/config.txt to run windowed by default).
EDIT: I should also mention that I am pretty much using Raspberry Pi OS exactly as it came on the card with my Pi plus whatever updates were available after installation.
Same issue here... both double clicking and running in console doesn't seem to work. Tried latest beta version of pico8 as well as some of the older versions, but no luck. Running Pi OS 64-bit though, which could be the issue, so will try again with 32-bit OS
there’s a raspi build for amd64, you should install that one.
when you run from the terminal, there must be some error message: please include that (copy-paste better than screenshot)
A while ago when I was getting my raspberry pies set up I noticed that I had trouble running the program if I grabbed the files and extracted them on a Windows PC and then dropped the USB into the raspberry pi, I resolved it by downloading and extracting everything on the raspberry pi itself
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