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To run the PICO-8 app, you either double-click on the PICO-8 app icon, or you run it from a command console (aka terminal window). There are minor differences depending on which operating system you use. |
To run the PICO-8 app, you either double-click on the PICO-8 app icon, or you run it from a command console (aka terminal window). There are minor differences depending on which operating system you use. |
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Revision as of 15:56, 2 April 2020
To run the PICO-8 app, you either double-click on the PICO-8 app icon, or you run it from a command console (aka terminal window). There are minor differences depending on which operating system you use.
Opening the app with the icon starts PICO-8 at the command prompt with default options.
When you run PICO-8 from the command line, you can specify command line flags to control certain behaviors. For example, you can specify the name of a cartridge file, and PICO-8 will load and run the cart immediately.
See the entry on printh()
for information about how to locate the PICO-8 command for each operating system.
Command flags:
pico8 [switches] [filename.p8]
-run filename
: automatically load and run a cartridge-x
: load the given cart, run it without a display, sound, or input, then exit when the cart exits- - p [param] : pass the given parameter into the cart. Can be accessed with
stat(6)
similar toload()
-width n
: set the window or screen width and adjust scale to fit if not specified-height n
: set the window or screen height and adjust scale to fit if not specified-windowed n
: set windowed mode off (0) or on (1)-sound n
: sound volume 0..256-music n
: sound volume 0..256-joystick n
: joystick controls starts at player n (0..7)-pixel_perfect n
: 1 for unfiltered screen stretching at integer scales (on by default)-draw_rect x,y,w,h
: absolute window coordinates and size to draw PICO-8's screen-splore
: boot in splore mode-home path
: set the path to store config.txt and other user data files-desktop path
: set a location for screenshots and gifs to be saved-screenshot_scale n
: scale of screenshots. default: 3 (384x384 pixels)-gif_scale n
: scale of gif captures. default: 2 (256x256 pixels)-gif_len n
: set the maximum gif length in seconds (1..120)-gui_theme n
: use 0 for the default background, 1 for a dark blue background, 2 for a black background, and 3 for a dark gray background in the code editor.-tab_width n
: number of spaces in a tab in the code editor (default: 1)-timeout n
: how many seconds to wait before downloads timeout (default: 30)-software_blit n
: use software blitting mode off (0) or on (1)
For example, to open PICO-8 and automatically start Splore in Mac OS X:
/Applications/PICO-8.app/Contents/MacOS/pico8 -splore