I'm currently working on a number of compatibility fixes and a port to another platform (I'm not going to say what platform yet!) after that I'll have a look into retrofw. Thanks for the report about the rg280M.
Awesome! Thank you so much for the great work and willingness to consider other platforms. PICO 8 is awesome and just seems so perfect for hhandhelds. Thank you again!
This would be so incredible! I commented on your Youtube video (thanks for the reply)! Pretty please port it to as many platforms as you can I want so badly to be playing this on my handhelds! (currently using Bittboy PocketGo V1 and Android phone) Thanks so much for all your hard work! Fingers crossed! Any way to get a notification when you drop this?)
Hello again CafeDood! I asked around the Discord community and one of the talented devs there agreed to try to port your fantastic tac08 to SDL 1.2 and RetroFW. However, the source files on the github are older, from March, and don't contain any of your recent improvements including working sound.
Is there any way you might be able to post the updated source?
Edit: I'm sorry, I was reading the older comments and see you did say you would not post updated force until you were happy with it. That said, once you do, it looks like the port to RetroFW will be a done deal.
The recently released RG280V would be a perfect fit for PICO-8 because of it's tiny form factor. As it's the same chip as in the RG280M it should run fine however the 280V has a different screen resolution: 480*320 with a 4:3 aspect ratio (non-square pixels). Would Tac08 look correctly on this device?
Because of the non-square pixels of the RG280V the image would need to be scaled up to 360x320 to look perfectly square. To increase the sharpness it would be best to do an integer 6x upscale to 768x768 and then do a bilinear downscale. I noticed a big increase in sharpness while doing something similar for the GPIcase's screen.
Here are two images, one bilinear upscaled from 128x128 to 320x320:
Tthe other is integer-upscaled to 768x768 and then bilinearly downscaled to 320x320.
It looks pretty sharp already. On the 2.8 inch screen of the RG280V it will look even sharper because of the high DPI. You could do this approach for other platforms as well.
