Description:
Amico8 is a PICO-8 fantasy console emulator for Amiga computers with a
68020 or better processor. It loads and runs PICO-8 cartridges in
both text (.p8) and image (.p8.png) format directly from the Amiga
file system.
Features:
- Runs many PICO-8 cartridges (.p8 and .p8.png) without modification
- Full 128x128 pixel display, 2x scaled to 256x256 via Amiga copper tricks
- 16-colour PICO-8 palette mapped to Amiga 12-bit hardware palette
- Joystick (port 2) and keyboard input
- Mouse support (port 1) for carts that use mouse API
- Paula audio: triangle, sawtooth, square, pulse, organ, noise waveforms
- Optional launcher window (GadTools) when no cart is specified
- Show FPS overlay, nosound and frameskip options
- AOT (Ahead-of-Time) native code compiler for Lua numeric functions
Two executables are provided:
Amico8 ? 68020/030 version, no FPU required.
Runs on any Amiga with a 68020 or better.
Amico8_040 ? 68040/060 version, requires FPU.
Takes advantage of 040/060 instruction scheduling.
Recommended processor: 68060.
Usage:
Amico8 [CART] [NOSOUND] [SHOWFPS] [FRAMESKIP <n>]
CART Path to a .p8 cartridge file
NOSOUND Disable audio
SHOWFPS Show frames-per-second overlay
FRAMESKIP n Render every n+1 frames (0=off, 1=half, 2=third speed)
If CART is not given, a launcher window opens where you can select a
cart via an ASL file requester and set options graphically.
Limitations:
- Some newer PICO-8 API calls may not be implemented
- Sound effects and music play, but advanced effects (vibrato, slide,
arpeggio) are not yet implemented
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Tested games:
LIST IN PROGRESS BUT CHECK THIS GAMES FIRST!:
Celeste, Celeste 2, Just One Boss, Combopool, Low Knight
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Code used:
Lua 5.2 ? scripting engine base
Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
Authors: R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes
License: MIT (http://www.lua.org/license.html)
The Lua VM and standard libraries form the core of the interpreter.
z8lua ? PICO-8-compatible Lua fork (from the Zepto-8 project)
Copyright (C) 2016-2024 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
License: WTFPL (http://www.wtfpl.net/)
Source: https://github.com/samhocevar/zepto8
z8lua extends Lua 5.2 with PICO-8-specific syntax (short-if, compound
assignment operators, integer division, fix32 number type, PICO-8 math
functions). The file z8lua/lpico8lib.c is taken directly from Zepto-8.
p8_compress ? PICO-8 cartridge decompression
Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Lexaloffle Games LLP
License: MIT
Decompresses PICO-8 Lua source code from both old ":c:" format and
modern "pxa" compressed format.
stb_image ? PNG image loader
Author: Sean Barrett
License: MIT / Public Domain
Source: https://github.com/nothings/stb
Used for loading .p8.png cartridge images.
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Thanks:
Kempy/Veezya ? testing
OlekW200i ? moral support
Quad ? moral support
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Amico8 v0.1 ? April 2026
Pawel "Juen" Nowak
Contact: j@ki.je or via imp3!
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