Top 6 C 8bit Projects

TIC-80

134 4,732 9.2 C

TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.

Project mention: Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-21

fujinet-firmware

5 207 9.8 C

8-bit systems to ESP32 WiFi Multifunction Firmware
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
c64-bitcoin-miner

5 87 0.0 C

C64 Bitcoin miner
klystrack

7 43 8.4 C

A fork of a chiptune tracker, supporting import of FamiTracker, AHX, FastTracker II and Protracker modules (by LTVA1)
gameoflife-gb

4 13 2.5 C

A Game Boy port of Conway's Game of Life
color-flood-for-amstrad-cpc

1 3 10.0 C

A puzzle game for 2 to 4 player. Written in portable C as an experiment: can a program with non-trivial algorithmic logic be compiled and run on an 8-bit platform? Answer: yes.

Project mention: Few lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-01

const int myarray[mysize];
* Good news: C can do compile time constant structs and array with deep self-references.
Yes, in C you can define and fully declare complex data structures that are accepted as compile-time constants, including pointers to parts of itself.
See "self-contained, statically allocated, totally const data structure with backward and forward references (pointers)?" for a previous example at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47037701/can-c-syntax-de...
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I used this for a game on a retro machine where such a data structure avoids code which would have been several times (perhaps 10 times) bigger: https://github.com/cpcitor/color-flood-for-amstrad-cpc/blob/...
Here's another take showing two variant: where overall construct is an array then a struct: https://gist.github.com/fidergo-stephane-gourichon/792c194e1...

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-21.