[bateskecom]

You and me both. There is already a lot out there similar running linux. Odroid go and other things running open dingux. Pico-8 as it stands needs a lot of horsepower as it's all lua scripts. I've talked to Lex about making a dedicated pico-8 console he says it would be tough, you basically need fully PC hardware to be faithful to what the virtual console should be able to do. I'm certain a lot of carts could be cross compiled into binaries and run just fine though he wasn't excited about that approach.

[roywiggins]

There's a couple of pico-8 emulators that run on Dingux, the problems they have seem mostly due to incompatibilities rather than computing power

https://github.com/Jakz/retro8

https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350

[WithinReason]

I was wondering if Nim could be a good tool here by compiling to C, here is a PICO-8 inspired lib written in it:

https://github.com/ftsf/nico