#picotron

Last time I walked through the basics — the specs, the desktop, a three-line hello world, a dot you can push around with the arrow keys. https://papoo.work/doc/236e7a6b9435d5bd If you went through that and got the dot moving, you cleared the only bar that actually matters on day one: does the thing run. Nobody's proud of a moving dot, though, and nobody's opening the BBS to admire your moving dot either. This is the part after that — the part the first piece skipped on purpose because it was alr

Picotron is Lexaloffle's "fantasy workstation." It comes from Joseph "Zep" White, the same person who made PICO-8, and it carries the same idea into something bigger. Where PICO-8 is one small game console, Picotron is more like a tiny toy computer: it boots into its own little desktop, with windows and built-in tools, and you make games, animations, music, and odd little programs inside it. I find it easiest to describe it like this: PICO-8 hands you a cartridge slot, and Picotron hands you a w