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There are plenty of alternatives you could find on [1] in the context of fantasy console, almost all of them, oss or proprietary, active or dormant. And honestly many of them were inspired by PICO-8.
[1]: https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
I like to start up Dosbox-X or one of the virtual Amiga environments that comes bundled with Amiga forever. Definitely cozy.
More often I use some old application, like the nowadays BSD-licensed ex-Autodesk Animator. It is fun to figure it out and more fun than modern applications in many ways. I even bought an old used book about it and read cover to cover. Limited compared to modern graphics software, but "cozy" is a great way to describe the experience.
https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro
As much as I love Lua its very difficult to shoe-horn into an 8-bit CPU, especially with limited RAM... but there are other efforts to bring more modern languages to these platforms, and one that strikes me as interesting is dflat, from 6502Nerd:
https://github.com/6502Nerd/dflat/wiki
(See language description here: https://github.com/6502Nerd/dflat/wiki/2.-Language-Descripti...)
Maybe something like this could evolve/be adapted for continued modern development needs?
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