A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.
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May 17, 2024
A fantasy console is a game engine and/or virtual machine simulating and inspired by 8-bit computers and consoles from yesteryear. It forces developers to work within constraints on color palettes, sound channels, resolution, memory, etc. Very popular in the retrogaming and game jam scenes.
A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.
A Neo-Retro Fantasy Console. Make WASM-powered, networked multiplayer games.
PTM (Programmable Tile Machine) is a "pseudo-8-bit fantasy computer" that you can program using a built-in programming language called PTML.
Simple graphical playground built on top of SFML.Net
Bitty Engine - An itty bitty 2D game engine, with built-in editors, programmable in Lua.
Open Web LoSpec 16 Fantasy Console
A fantasy handheld console for small visual novels, 2d RPGs, and other story-rich games!
Another fantasy console with weird specs
A retro game engine for Python
General repository for all software (emulators, dev tools, etc) related to Vircon32 but not running on console itself
General repository for all code (games, BIOS, etc) that runs within the Vircon32 console itself
A collection of PDF documents related to the console. Mainly specifications and guides.
Resources for physical versions of console, peripherals, games, manuals, etc.