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A fantasy console is a game engine and/or virtual machine simulating and inspired by 8-bit computers and consoles from yesteryear. It forces developers to work within constraints on color palettes, sound channels, resolution, memory, etc. Very popular in the retrogaming and game jam scenes.

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aduros / wasm4

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Add special characters to system font

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aduros commented Dec 13, 2021

The font bitmap has empty space reserved for ASCII characters 0x80 through 0xA0.

We should use that space for something, like icons for WASM-4 controller buttons, or generic sprites like stars/hearts/etc.

Games can then use hex string literals to easily display these:

text("Press \x80 to jump!", 0, 0);
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