Top 21 8-bit Open-Source Projects

• fantasy

  9 1,305 6.8

  A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.

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

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

• CROSS-LIB

  5 306 9.7 C

  CROSS LIB - A universal 8-bit library and some games built with it

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• lzsa

  2 227 2.1 C

  Byte-aligned, efficient lossless packer that is optimized for fast decompression on 8-bit micros

• AgonLight

  2 217 7.3

  A stand-alone, BASIC-programmable microcontroller and microcomputer in one! The fastest, cheapest, most hackable 8-bit computer ever.

Project mention: recommendations for chip & board setup | /r/Forth | 2023-06-08

Pre-assembled, the Agon Light sure seems to be the sweet spot for Z80. It's cheaper than I can populate my own clone board on.

• hbc-56

  38 171 8.9 Assembly

  Homebrew 6502 on a backplane computer

Project mention: Alternative designs for a keyboard interface? | /r/beneater | 2023-12-09

I use a PIC16F microcontroller. Schematics and PIC code in my HBC-56 repo. https://github.com/visrealm/hbc-56

• arv32-opt

  2 157 7.0 C

  [Tested successfully] Linux on Arduino UNO / atmega328p port of mini-rv32ima. Let's run Linux on the world's worst Linux PC (and beat Dmitry Grinberg)

Project mention: Linux on RISC-V on Arduino Uno | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-14

• Mad-Pascal

  2 109 9.7 Pascal

  Mad Pascal Compiler for 6502 (Atari XE/XL, C64, C4Plus, Neo6502)

Project mention: tebe6502/Mad-Pascal: Mad Pascal Compiler for 6502 (Atari XE/XL, C64, C4Plus) | /r/c64 | 2023-07-20

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• apultra

  1 96 3.3 C

  Free open-source compressor for apLib with 5-7% better ratios

• salvador

  1 58 2.9 C

  A free, open-source compressor for the ZX0 format

• pixel-weather

  2 39 0.0 CSS

  A pixelated weather widget for your desktop

• AgonORIGINS

  1 37 7.7

  A stand-alone, BASIC-programmable microcontroller and microcomputer in one! The fastest, cheapest, most hackable 8-bit computer ever.

Project mention: Agon light ORIGINS [eZ80 computer] | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-16

• ts-8-bit

  1 36 0.0 TypeScript

  Using TypeScript's Type System to do 8-bit Arithmetic

• TileGameLib

  2 29 7.4 C#

  TileGameLib is a toolkit for quick and easy development of tile-based, pseudo-8-bit games.

Project mention: I made a new interpreted, low-level programming language from scratch that allows you to create tile-based, pseudo-8-bit minigames for Windows (open-source on GitHub, C++ project using SDL 2) | /r/programming | 2023-05-16

I have actually developed a separated library called TGL.lib that implements both tiles, smooth scrolling and also sprites which can move freely on top of the tile buffers and can detect collisions between each other (https://github.com/FernandoAiresCastello/TileGameLib). I'm going to include some of that same functionality into PTM version 2.

• NESTool

  2 24 5.5 C#

  Tool to create and manage assets for a NES game.

• spectrum-desolate

  2 23 1.8 Assembly

  🕹️ Ported Desolate game from TI-83 Plus to ZX Spectrum

• rust-z80emu

  1 20 8.7 Rust

  A minimalistic Z80 Cpu emulation library in Rust.

• 8-bit-computer-emulator

  1 19 0.0 C++

  Emulator of my 8-bit-computer

• 8-bit-computer

  22 19 0.0

  Documentation of my 8-bit computer build

• bansoko

  2 10 5.9 Python

  Space-themed :rocket: Soko-Ban :video_game: clone created in Python using Pyxel.

• ByteFrost

  1 4 6.7 C

  Software Tools for ByteFrost - A Breadboard 8-Bit Computer

• PTM

  1 4 9.1 C++

  PTM (Programmable Tile Machine) is a "pseudo-8-bit fantasy computer" that you can program using a built-in programming language called PTML.

Project mention: I've been developing a sort of "fantasy console" that interprets a custom programming language that you can make little tile-based games with... It would be cool to see what people can create with it so I thought it would be a good idea to try posting here. More details in the comments: | /r/playmygame | 2023-05-27

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• Alternative designs for a keyboard interface?
  1 project | /r/beneater | 9 Dec 2023
• After Wozmon I want to create a game - 6502
  5 projects | /r/beneater | 6 Dec 2023
• Linux on RISC-V on Arduino Uno
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2023
• tebe6502/Mad-Pascal: Mad Pascal Compiler for 6502 (Atari XE/XL, C64, C4Plus)
  1 project | /r/c64 | 20 Jul 2023
• Lista de Fantasy Consoles/Computers
  1 project | /r/RafaLagoon | 19 Jul 2023
• recommendations for chip & board setup
  1 project | /r/Forth | 8 Jun 2023
• I made a new interpreted, low-level programming language from scratch that allows you to create tile-based, pseudo-8-bit minigames for Windows (open-source on GitHub, C++ project using SDL 2)
  1 project | /r/programming | 16 May 2023
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