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TIC-80

Fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. · By Nesbox

Experimenting with new resolution and font to better code editing

A topic by Nesbox created Oct 18, 2016 Views: 1,459 Replies: 15
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Developer

240x136 (6x6 pixel font with lowercase)


160x102 (6x4 pixel font)

I find the new font way less readable, especially the lowercase characters.

Developer

My eyes are bleeding on all versions of the font :) but with new font and display resolution we have some advantages like more space for editing, lowercase characters and etc...

I think it's just a matter of habit.

Thanks.

I love the previous version, looks retro cool

A suggestion: show the command history using the up arrow key.

Developer

Will be added with the next version, thanks.

There's a weird bug with the code editor where when you click somewhere in your code, then type a single character, the last character/space you were just in, or the last character you just typed, is selected. It makes it weird when trying to click back and edit some lines of code because you accidentally delete the first character of whatever you just typed.

Developer

Thanks for the report.

Can you release a separate version with the old font and no lowercase?

Developer

Unfortunately no, it's difficult to support both versions with different fonts.

I like old version too but most of people voted for the new 6x6 font https://twitter.com/tic_computer/status/7883145997... :)

How to file I/O?

Developer

TIC computer doesn't support file I/O, but you can store data to the cart memory using 'poke' API function and then save the cart.

Just interesting why do you need file i/o?

i want to use word list and save/load game score

What language is being used for the user to program? I can't find it anywhere else online...

It's Lua.

In fairness, it only gets a small mention in the specification section of the web page and documentation.

Developer

Yes, I'm going to fill docs closer to v1.0.0