This is an attempt to have an open source reimplementation of PICO-8 fantasy console to be used on Desktop platforms but especially wherever you want to compile it.
It was born as an attempt to make PICO-8 games playable on OpenDingux devices (GCW0, RG350, ..).
The emulator is written in C++11 and embeds Lua source code (to allow extensions to the language that PICO-8 has). It currently requires SDL2 but a SDL1.2 backend will be made too.
Currently much of the API is already working with good performance, even basic sound and music are working.
Many demos already work and even some full games.
- All graphics functions have been implemented but not all their subfeatures,
- All math functions have been implemented,
- Sound functions have been implemented together with an audio renderer stack but many effects still missing
- Common platform functions have been implemented
- Some Lua language extensions have been implemented
The dreaded missing features are Lua extensions hard to add to the existing parsing, like compound (+=) operators which currently don't work on subexpressions (like foo.x += 3) or inline if which gives problems with return statements.