Show HN: Meg-4 the Open Source PICO-8 alternative https://ift.tt/tmQ7ryP

Show HN: Meg-4, the Open Source PICO-8 alternative Hi fellow hackers, I've created a GPL licensed alternative to the proprietary PICO-8. It also addresses most of its shortcomings: - available as an application or as an Operating System (fbdev+alsa backend only) - multilanguage support - uses UTF-8 encoding (BMP only) - sophisticated user input methods (direct codepoint, composition, Hiragana and Katakana etc.) - provides a large and efficient API library for your scripts - supports C, BASIC, Assembly and Lua scripts (more to come) - supports wide variety of file formats (Amiga MOD, MIDI, Tiled TMX, PNG, etc.) - capable of importing PICO-8 and TIC-80 cartridges - supports multiple platforms and backends: SDL, glfw, raylib, etc. - runs in your browser too: https://ift.tt/PfSnW70 Also check out its well-structured and comprehensive documentation: https://ift.tt/2UtqdE9 Binaries are provided for emscripten (web), Windows, Linux (statically linked SDL, GLFW3+portaudio and fbdev+alsa, dynamically linked deb package for Ubuntu and RaspiOS). It is still in early in development, but almost feature complete. At this stage, expect minor bugs here and there, but should work most of the time. The interface is already translated to 25 languages, but the built-in help and the user manual is only available in English for now. Let me know what you think! https://ift.tt/PfSnW70 June 30, 2023 at 11:16PM