PX8 – A PICO-8 compatible fantasy console written in Rust
Wow, I've never heard of the PICO-8 before, but it's <i>fantastic</i>! This is exactly what I've always wanted, some ultra-simplified game console/emulator that's easy to create content for and easy to distribute that content. People have even built cool demoscene-esque content for it![2] And some of the games people have made are fantastic, and you can play them in your browser here: <a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?mode=carts&cat=7&sub=2&orderby=rating" rel="nofollow">http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?mode=carts&cat=7&sub=2&orderb...</a><p>Also, I was a bit confused by the term "fantasy console" so here's what I've been able to learn with some reading: it seems the PICO-8 is a kind of ultra-simple game VM with it's original implementation being in HTML/JS with access being sold by the creator[0]. At some point, the PICO-8 vm was ported by its creator to work on the CHIP computer, and now the PICO-8 VM is pre-installed on all CHIP computers[1].<p>What the OP link is for is an open source implementation of the PICO-8 VM in Rust. This isn't the only open source implementation of PICO-8.<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://getchip.com/pages/chip" rel="nofollow">https://getchip.com/pages/chip</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvnYkmtleI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvnYkmtleI</a>