Hi. I'm new to Tic-80 (and coding and everything like these, really).
I compared Pico and Tic and I really like the openess of Tic-80.
One thing: Is there a way to configure TIC-80 as close to an Atari 2600? I mean the palette (less) and resolution (I think closer to Pico). Or, if not in the settings of TIC, maybe a basic .tic file with that configuration and palette?
If there has been already done this, or if what I say is nonsense, please disregard this noob message :)
You can't change the resolution but you might be able to emulate a lower resolution in some way, eg drawing rects or small sprites to give the illusion of bigger pixels (I don't know anything about the Atari you mention I'm afraid).
The palette is easier - just use the colours you want and don't use the others :D
You could use this tool to set the desired colours and maybe set the ones you're not going to use to black or some other colour:
https://aaronsnoswell.github.io/blog/tic-80-color-palette-tool
Hello, I'm porting an Amstrad CPC game to TIC-80 and I also had to adapt the resolution. The original game is on 160x200, compared to the 240x136 in TIC-80 so I had to change the sprites a bit but not that much: it's a tile game (some sort of sokoban-style). The Amstrad CPC possible resolutions are 160x200, 320x200 and 640x200 (the higher the res is, less colors are available) so not all games can be adapted to TIC-80, but sometimes the "useful" screen is only a small subset of the actual screen, you can use that to fit TIC-80 resolution. Good luck with your project!
Yes, you could always use a viewport (clipping region) if the resolution is lower than TIC's - for example, my game for the last Low Rez jam was 64x64 (https://paul59.itch.io/crowd-sauce)
EDIT: Wish I still had my CPC464! :D
