0.3.1

• Cartrige compatibility
  • Add missing peek, peek2, peek4 shorthands (% $ @)
• Predefined functions
  • pack
  • pal with table
  • tline
• Fixes
  • ord: work with binary strings (specially strings with null characters in them)
  • ord: it was returing negative integers, when it should only return positive integers.
  • pal: keep transparency palette intact
  • spr: the rendering was offset by 1px when flipy=true
  • sub: add support for nil parameters

0.3.0

This release adds more compatible games, and features save states!

• Added save states.
  • Added save/load state on the menu.
  • Every cartridge have their own save state which is persisted on disk.
• New predefined functions
  • poke2
  • poke4
  • run (+ breadcrumbs)
• p8scii
  • Repeats
  • Bgcolor
  • Vertical cursor move
  • Horizontal + Vertical cursor move
• p8lua
  • Parse special characters (e.g. # - etc.)
• Discovered a special compression method used by pico-8 in some of its characters that caused the cartridge to fail loading.
• Fixes
  • Chr not returning values.
  • Default values for map() parameters cellw and cellh.
  • print() returns the width of the text drawn.
  • all() behaviour when mutating the underlying array.

0.2.0

This release improves compatibility and performance, specially when rendering fill ovals or rectangles.

• Added a new tab to fetch the newest cartirdges published on pico8's BBS.
• Fixes
  • Rendering cache after pal() changes
  • Sspr rendering with odd offsets
  • Music timing
  • Bitwise operations with constants
  • Multiple btnp calls on the same button
• p8lua
  • Special characters can now be used as variable names
  • By default each special character is given a value to be used with fillp and btn/btnp
• New predefined functions
  • memcpy
  • tostr for other types than numbers + undocumented 0x2 flag
  • fillp with transparency
  • t (alias for time)
  • coroutine methods (cocreate, coresume, costatus, yield)
  • pal(0) resets draw palette
  • reload()

0.1.0

This release focused on improving compatibility. For this a major refactor was done, heavily modifying Lua to accept syntax differences on p8lua, and having every number in 16-bit fixed point (just as the real pico8).

Srand + random also have the same behaviour as the original pico8

• p8lua
  • Improve reliability of many transforms (if shorthand, bitwise operators, unary operators, assignment operator, etc.)
  • bitwise operations with decimals
  • add missing assignment operators (e.g. |= &= etc.)
• draw
  • fill patterns
• detect incompatible cartridges (avoid crashes)
• show warning icon when an error happens in lua
• add saves - To enable them, create the /data/p8-saves folder
• predefined functions
  • sget
  • sset
  • clip
  • cartdata
  • dget
  • dset
  • memset
  • fillp
  • pget
  • flip
  • band
  • bor
  • bxor
  • brotl
  • brotr
  • bshl
  • bshr
  • blshr
  • srand
  • peek
  • peek2
  • peek4
  • unpack

splore.0

This release adds a new (quite unpolished) screen on the main menu, that fetches the top 32 featured cartridges from Pico-8's BBS and lets you load them:

Note that compatibility is still very limited - From today's list only 4 were playable. It will improve over time.

• Improved render performance by ~15%
• Fix framerate control (on PS4 it wasn't targetting 30/60fps)
• Added new page on main menu to load cartridges from the featured Pico-8 BBS
• Polished music stability.

music.1

This release fixes a couple of issues:

• The volume level was turned down the more channels were active.
• Sometimes sfx would kick music channels.

music.0

This release mainly adds multi-channel sfx + music. Celeste is now playable... a bit slow, but playable.

• P8SCII
  • Special character replacement (\123)
  • \n \r \b
  • background color #
  • ★ and ○ characters
• pico-8 predefined functions:
  • music
  • extcmd (reset, pause, shutdown)
  • fget
  • fset
  • atan2
  • ceil
  • pset
  • shr
  • shl
  • sgn
  • count
• Improve pico-8 lua transform
• sfx offset, length and loops
• squish sprites
• flip sprites
• btnp delay config through poke
• map layers
• improve render performance (will need more work)
• reset cart from pause menu
• add many button aliases for X and O

cartridge-selector.0

• Internal refactor to properly emulate pico-8 memory.
• Add support to additional Pico-8 lua features:
  • += -= *= /= operands.
  • Binary literals (0b01110...)
  • fillp(symbol)
  • if (condition) do_something shorthand
• Support more pico-8 predefined functions:
  • foreach
  • mid
  • abs
  • del
  • deli
  • split
  • sspr (without stretches or flip)
  • poke
  • pal
  • palt
  • camera
  • sqrt
  • cos
  • sin
  • map
  • mget
  • mset
  • line
  • rectfill (without pattern)
  • circ
  • circfill (without pattern)
  • oval
  • ovalfill (without pattern)
• Add cartridge selection menu
  • Cartridges can be bundled in the .pkg by putting them in /assets/misc.
  • Cartridges can be added externally by placing them in a PS4's /data/p8-cartridges folder

minewalker-basic.0

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