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This information applies to the PICO-8 0.1.6 release.

This document is here to help folks with a proficiency in Lua understand the limitations and discrepencies between Lua and PICO-8's Lua.

You can always view the manual or yellowafterlife's extended 0.1.1 manual.

General

anything written in uppercase the PICO-8 editor or .p8 is made lowercase by the editor. → editing the .p8 file directly can work
print(function() end) outputs the string function instead of the string function: 0x0000000.

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

Notes on header files

After over 20 years working with C/C++ I finally got clear idea how header files need to be organized. Most of the projects in C++ world simply dump everything in .h file, and most of my C++ code was organized this way. Lately I started to separate function declaration from implementation as it was done in C. Now .h headers are exclusevely intended for function and class declaration with doxygen documentation style comments. Inline implementation of functions, class method implementation, etc. goes into .inl headers or .cpp files.

For example .h file would contain only declaration and doxygen style documentation comment:

	/// Convert size in bytes to human readable string.
	void prettify(char* _out, int32_t _max, uint64_t _value)

State of Roblox graphics API across all platforms, with percentage deltas since EOY 2018. Updated December 29 2019.

Windows

API	Share
Direct3D 11+	85% (+5%)
Direct3D 10.1	8.5% (-1.5%)
Direct3D 10.0	5.5% (-2.5%)
Direct3D 9	1% (-1%)

	/**
	* This software is in the public domain. Where that dedication is not recognized,
	* you are granted a perpetual, irrevokable license to copy and modify this file
	* as you see fit.
	*
	* Requires SDL 2.0.4.
	* Devices that do not support Metal are not handled currently.
	**/

	#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head><title>Fizzlefade</title></head>

	<body>

	<canvas id="framebuffer" width="320" height="200"></canvas>

	<script type="text/javascript">
	/* Fizzlefade using a Feistel network.

	// $ gcc -o glitch_cube glitch_cube.c -lglfw -lGL -lGLU
	#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
	#include <GL/gl.h>
	#include <GL/glu.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <math.h>

	void cubeFaceX(float side) {
	glNormal3f(side, 0.0f, 0.0f);