8bitworkshop VS Moai

8bitworkshop

Online IDE for Atari 2600 development based on Javatari.

Moai

Moai is a spiritual successor to one of the elder gods of pixel editing: Autodesk Animator.

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2023-06-19

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2018-09-29

Uploading a game to an Apple ][+ via cassette port with 8bitworkshop

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Category Popularity

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Moai

Game Engine

57 57%

Game Engine

43% 43

Game Development

54 54%

Game Development

46% 46

Graph Databases

100 100%

Graph Databases

0% 0

3D Game Engine

0 0%

3D Game Engine

100% 100

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8bitworkshop mentions (18)

FPGA Dev Boards for $150 or Less
I wish 8bitworkshop got more love. It is amazing. From the homepage "Write 8-bit code in your browser. Ever wanted to be an old-school game programmer? Learn how classic game hardware worked. Write code and see it run instantly." It lets you get your feet wet in Verilog without buying the hardware first. This description doesn't do it justice at all so check it out. https://8bitworkshop.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Atari 2600 Hardware Design: Making Something Out of (Almost) Nothing
I have actually recently picked up Atari 2600 homebrew development as a hobby. My reasons are: 1. The hardware is simple enough that you can completely understand everything that is going on. And you absolutely need to understand it, if you want to make good games. Just a great feeling of power and control. 2. You need to use assembly. Even with 8-bit era computers you don't really need to use assembly. Sure, for... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I wrote up how to setup Termux-X11 in Termux with XFCE
Always happy to see more documentation out there. I have a bigger document posted on my website, which includes setting up X11 with XFCE4, but it includes everything else needed to do Intellivision indie game development. I had to do it this way because Intellivision is the one console not included in 8-Bit Workshop. Also, I had to go with Tiger VNC, because XServer XSDL simply didn't like XFCE4 and was getting... Source: over 1 year ago
You never noticed because it was the last time you had fun.
I'd recommend that anyone actually interested in the underlying reason read Stephen Higgs awesome book on programming games for the NES. http://8bitworkshop.com. Source: over 1 year ago
Programming Games for Atari 2600
Steve Hugg has a few nice books on the topic https://8bitworkshop.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago