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Fantasy Consoles
Date: 2024-09-30
This picture of "A Mirror of Time" ("Зеркало времени", 1976) animation by Vladimir Tarasov looks a lot like "Q.bert" video game (Warren Davis and Jeff Lee for Atari and Gottlieb, 1982)
About Fantasy consoles
Link to lists of Fantasy Consoles
Open sources Fantasy Consoles
TIC-80
My favorite for now, see my own creations, it is since one of the Demoscene favorite tools.
- TIC-80 TIC-80 Wiki, mainly Lua, lot of languages (python, Ruby, WASM, wren, etc) , SDL, 240↗160 16 colors + copperlist, 4 channels, multiplateformes (Lin, Mac, Win), barebone et libretro)
- Helpful lib, tic80-boilerplate allow to concatenate multifiles project/libs to a final TIC-80 card
Meg4
- Meg4 (GPL3+) Documentation Meg4 sources C, BASIC? (pseudo-)assembly, Lua. VGA mode-13 (320×200×8bit, 256 colours from 32 bits ARGB), 8b/44KHz, 31 wav + 64 fm support amiga mod. and Milkyway compatible for music, 1024 8x8 sprites, UTF-8, multiple "platforms", SDL, GLFW, raylib, sokol, allegro, libretro, etc
- Gamercade, Webassembly console, with various resolutions/palettes, fm+sample synthesizer, 8channel for music, 8 for sfx
Minicube (and Byte)
- Minicube (documentation) and [Byte][https://github.com/nullptropy/byte) are 6502 assembly based fantasy consoles.
See C64 Assembly page for more informations about 65xx (including 6502) introduction and doc.
emulated old computers
See the page retrocomputing