Sharing

Share your creative disks via Workshop using built-in tools, and play others' creations.

Redistributing

Make redistributable standalone player for Windows, MacOS and Linux with the Player Maker, and for browsers with the HTML Maker.

About This Software

READY

• Handy sharing via Workshop with built-in tools
  
• Disk can be made into standalone player with the Player Maker and HTML Maker
  
• Disk can be saved as "*.b8" file, "*.png", or text based for sharing
  
• Programmable in an easy to learn BASIC dialect with both retro and modern syntax
  
• Easy to use API for graphics, input, audio, and more other facilities
  
• Visualized built-in tools for editing sprite, tiles, map, quantized, etc.
  
• Visualized Wave Maker for making sound effect
  
• Easy to bring your own tools
  
• More features coming...

SPECS

• Display: 160x128 pixels
  
• Audio: 2 music channels, 1 MIDI channel, 4 sound effect channels, 1 speech channel
  
• Code: BASIC (structured/prototype-based/functional)
  
• Graphics: up to 65535 drawing commands per cycle
  
• Palette: 16 colors with transparency support
  
• Sprite: up to 32x32 pixels per frame, up to 512 frames per sprite
  
• Tiles: 240 cels
  
• Map: up to 128x64 tiles per layer, up to 4 layers (including a layer of logic mark) per page
  
• Gamepad: 6 buttons for each pad (D-Pad + A/B), up to 8 players
  
• Keyboard and mouse: supported

LANG

• Case-insensitive; but no line number in BASIC8
  
• Built-in LIST and DICT
  
• Structured sub routine definition with the DEF/ENDDEF statements
  
• LAMBDA expression enhanced
  
• Prototype-based CLASS paradigm
  
• With both manually and automatically dispatched COROUTINE
  
• Importing multiple source files with the IMPORT statement
  
• Automatic releasing of referenced objects by GC
  
• Built-in libraries for File, IO, JSON, Matrix, Network, Web, etc.
  
• No limitation for file quantity (code, sprites, maps, etc.)
  
• More advantages to be discovered...