Mini Micro version 0.2 is now released! This version adds extensive sound support, including sounds loaded from WAV files and sounds synthesized in code. Grab the latest here: https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/​ See the development roadmap for details on how this fits into the grand scheme of things …

I'm excited to announce the very first public release of Mini Micro as a stand-alone Mac and Windows app! Grab it here: https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/​ This is version 0.1 . It does not yet have support for sounds or tile maps, but text, pixel graphics, and sprites are all working fine! See the …

Thank you for the feedback. Python is a 900-pound gorilla and Lua has already caught on far more than it deserves; indeed, MiniScript was written largely as a reaction to Lua. (I started writing a book on programming for kids in Lua, but gave it up in disgust after a few chapters... Lua's pretty on …

I threw up a little video of a Flappy Bird game I wrote today. Uh... doesn't look like I can do embedded videos here, so here's a link.

Thanks for the feedback! That really means a lot to me. Indeed we do have MiniScript for C++. I'm using it in the command-line version, but anyone can grab the source here and incorporate it into their own C/C++ projects. Documentation on that is still a bit thin, but I'm eager to help!

I'm planning support for digitized sounds, either loaded from disk or constructed procedurally. That could include music simply played as a digitized sound, or played as a series of notes under program control. I'm not planning to emulate any particular vintage hardware, though. In keeping with the …

Hi guys — newbie going out on a limb here, so please be kind. :) First to introduce myself: my name is Joe Strout, and I've been coding since I was a kid with a TI-99/4A. Some folks around here might be old/geeky enough to have read some of the articles I wrote for Nibble magazine back in the day ( …