@zep It would be hugely helpful if we had a -home [path] commandline parameter for Picotron. I'll describe how I currently have it set up for PICO-8, so you can see how it would be helpful for Picotron:
> Computer lab environment, with each computer having Google Drive installed. (Installing Google Drive locally is like Dropbox, but for Google Drive. Basically gives you a G-Drive on your computer that is direct local access to your Google Drive files and folders, so you can, say, save directly from Notepad into your Google Drive.)
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> PICO-8 is installed on each computer, but the desktop shortcut to launch PICO-8 uses the -home commandline parameter to point the home folder to c:\pico8 instead of the user's profile folder. Inside c:\pico8 are folder symlinks for carts and images that point to corresponding folders in G:\My Drive\pico8. Then the c:\pico8\config.txt points desktop_path and root_path to ./images and ./carts, respectively.
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> This means no matter which computer they use, c:\pico8\carts always points to their carts folder in their G-Drive. And because their carts are saved to the cloud, they're not locked to using a specific computer and they can even access carts from home.
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Over a week or so in late March and early April, we've been working on instrument.txt - a detailed (~4.6k words) guide to Picotron's built-in instrument editor, designed for musicians who have Picotron but know nothing about synthesizer sound design. In this guide (currently version 2.0) (html version, web version), we:
- Detail the Picotron instrument editor UI;
- Explain how each element - output mixer, oscillators, envelopes, and effects - works; and
- Guide you through putting this to practice by making a series of simple instruments, including organ sounds, 'piano' sounds, kick drums, snare(-adjacent) drums, and cymbals and hi hats.
If you've been wanting to play with Picotron's tracker but not known how to make it work, we hope this sets you up to make lots of sounds.
Changelog
- added info on the space bar halt-sound control and the random and looping envelope options.
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Guide to Making a Picosite:
- Build your page in the builder
- Export it as a .lua file
- Put it in your Github repository
- Make a comment like ^PICOSITE^ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/you/yoursite/main/home.lua ^ Your page ^ My Page! ^
- Done!
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--- CONTROLS ---
Arrow keys to walk
C to jump
X to grapple (in goblin mode)
X to float (in ghost mode)
--- STORY ---
You are a greedy goblin looking for some gold in a dungeon. Unfortunately, the Evil Spirit of the Dungeon™ has cursed all of the gold so that whoever steals it becomes a ghost. There is a catch though: if you bring the gold back to the chest at the beginning of the level, you become alive again somehow!
Use your goblin grappling hook and ghostly floating abilities to make your way to the gold and back!
--- MAKING OF ---
This game was made by two people (ooooggll and Ummmm_ok) way back in October, for a game jam in a game design class. The jam lasted roughly 3 weeks I think. As a result, some features in the game might feel incomplete as we had to get it done by the deadline.
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I’m definitely not a professional programmer, albeit having a bachelors degree in information management.
So… is there anything that I can improve onto my ddate cart?
I think that I can add a “hand of Eris” in ascii with no problem.
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Image...
So I wanted to make PicoChat (from picotron), but with images.
The limit of chars you can send is 256, so that means a 16x16 image with colors.
This method can send a two color image with 32x32. Im not sure if anyone has ever done this.
The way it works is simple, you have a table with 16 combinations of a 1x4 field. Each one has a index.
then the first four pixels are checked for a combination and assigned a index from the table, you can decode it in the same way. I planning to implement it to PicoChat.
you can use this for anything, have a nice day :)
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Made a silly little crystal ball that you can ponder. Rub it to receive answers from the void.
I like to mount mine in the tooltray so I can rub it in the middle of a difficult coding problem.
Have fun!
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"The image translators work for the construct program - but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix.
You get used to it. I don't even see the code - all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."
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When I call map(), only the top layer is drawn. How do I draw all the layers at once? It doesn't seem like there is any parameter to change which layers to draw, but maybe I just haven't figured out which parameter it is.
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Can anyone tell me what’s the code for making a single image (from converted png) into a static wallpaper?
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A simple screen saver.
Installation
- type
load #sonar_screensaverin terminal - save to
/appdata/system/screensavers/ - select in system settings
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This is my best screensaver yet! (web version could run slow, also not recommended with low battery)
Just type load #universe in the terminal and you're good to go!
I don't really know how I did this, I just work with what I already did and tweak it up.
If somebody cares one day I could make some videos explaining my process.
I'll update it in the next days to improve the performance.
Some feedback is always appreciated :1 (a new emoticon I just created)
How to install
1) Head to the terminal and type in: load #universe
2) Then save it into /appdata/system/screensavers/
3) Now from settings you can choose this screensaver!
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I was so excited to see that Picotron had screensavers, the first thing I did was to recreate the flying toasters of my youth using the mascot for the Portland Indie Game Squad, CubePig.
(It says HAPPY BIRTHDAY! because it was made for PIGSquad's 13th anniversary celebration. You can toggle the text by pressing X.)
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CoCo Clicker V1
Cookie Clicker Demake - Malsarthegreat
This is my first Pico-8 Game! Love this fantasy console and I love clickers so I thought I would take a stab at a classic!
It is fairly basic at the moment with only 5 upgrades and 1 sfx but I am pretty pleased with the UI so far!
Plan on continuing work on this but this is what I have for now!
Features so far:
- Cookie clicking!
- 5 Upgrades
- 1 sfx
- cartridge saving and loading (persistent storage)
- cookie animations
- milk animation
- Simple/usable UI
A few known bugs:
- Alchemy upgrade cost is wonky
- once you hit 50k cookies, it turns negative and eventually you start over.
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nanpa kule, "color code"
This is a little tool I created for displaying all 32 colors with their corresponding color code.
I know a lot of people already did thoses kind of tool, but I wanted to do mine !
Please do not look to close in the code, it's bad, I'm not good with Picotron yet...
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One of Picotron's features is that it can read the keyboard keys, but because the escape key is used to quit the currently-running program, it appears to be unavailable for making applications that respond to keypresses of the Escape key (say, to cancel an operation, dismiss a dialog box, interrupt some in-game process, etc.).
It seems to me that once the app is exported into a standalone app (as mentioned in the FAQ), the escape key (perhaps) can be safely captured and responded to in that context. Anyone know if we'll be able to read the escape key in standalone games? And if so, how do we get the development system to "play nice" with that so it can be developed and tested?
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I'm trying to cast a shadow over a distorted sprite by setting a fill pattern with transparency andd then rectfilling over the sprite. But I can't seem to get the pico-8 fill pattern transparency bit to work. Does anyone know how to get this effect working in picotron? For reference, the introduction to https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Fillp describes it at the end - adding 0x0.8 to a fill pattern will enable the "on" bits to be transparent.
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Flycave
A one-button game based on my favorite old PalmOS game called SFCave by SunFlat. Press the up arrow to swoop up and let go to dive down. Dodge the obstacles and don't hit the edges of the cave.
Notes
This is my first attempt at a game on any platform. The game mechanics are directly from SFCave, but I put my own spin on the graphics to learn as much as I could about Pico 8. Feedback is very welcome!
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