

Picotron
Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create cute Lua apps that can be run inside Picotron as windowed userland processes, shared as cartridge files, or exported to stand-alone HTML apps.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- DRM Free
- Built-in viewer
- Portable
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Music Sequencer
- Export to HTML
- Pixel Art
- Built-in editor
- Skinnable
- Pixel graphics
- 2D Game Engine
- Desktop Environment
- 2D Game Creation
Tags
- fantasy-console
- development
- Game Engine
- fantasy-workstation
- 16-bit
- retro
- lua
- Virtual machine
- chiptune-tracker
- chiptune
- Software developer
Picotron News & Activities
Recent activities
Picotron information
What is Picotron?
Fantasy Desktop Picotron comes with a cute desktop interface featuring tabbed workspaces and a fold-out tooltray that is accessible from any workspace. The tooltray acts as a second desktop for handy access to frequently used files and widgets. Files can also be dropped on top of each other to form tidy stacks that are shuffleable with the mousewheel.
Bundled Tools Use the built-in editors or create your own! The included editors for code, graphics, tile maps, music and sound effects are themselves all made in Picotron and use standard /system/lib libraries for handling things like unlimited undo stacks, gui, and file management.
Customise your Workstation Make your own live wallpapers, screensavers, icons, widgets, and set up workflows just the way you like! Or have a look around the BBS to see what other cartridge authors are up to.
Next Generation Fantasy Hardware Picotron is built on tightly integrated, flexible graphics and audio pipelines that can happily run on low powered host machines and web. They each come with a simple-to-use API for handling common things like drawing a colour-swapped sprite or triggering a sound effect, but the underlying data and machine state is all exposed in virtual RAM, offering a myriad of possibilities for those willing to venture down the rabbithole. Status: Alpha
Picotron is still new but has a relatively complete API, and HTML exporters. Binary exporters are coming soon! See the roadmap for future plans:







