JoeStrout

At the end of 2025, I posted a MiniScript Road Map for 2026 (and beyond). We're now almost one...

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With 2025 coming to a close, it's time to look ahead to 2026! MiniScript is now eight years old. ...

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Recently I've started working with a small team on a 5-month game jam. We're making a 2D...

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A few years ago, I wrote an introductory book about computer programming called Introduction to...

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Mini Micro version 1.2.5 came out this week, a fairly minor update that fixed a couple of obscure...

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The Apple 2 (usually written Apple ][) computer was one of the first widely popular home computers. ...

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It's now been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, taking the world by storm. Even most AI...

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I'm traveling this week with another family (our neighbors and BFFs), including two pre-teen kids who...

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In my spare time, I've been working lately on a project called Fathom's Edge, a sort of roguelike RPG...

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GitHub is a great place to store your projects on the web — it's free, it provides powerful version...

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I've been on vacation this week, doing some traveling with my spouse, who's attending a conference in...

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Many game development environments, including Unity, Godot, and Mini Micro, include a lerp function. ...

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On rare occasions, I write a blog post that's not about MiniScript. Today is one of those! It...

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The Mini Micro TileDisplay supports a couple of properties whose purpose may not seem immediately...

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I've been writing about MiniScript and Mini Micro here on dev.to since 2022. But I'm not the only...

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Mini Micro was updated to version 1.2.4 today. Let's take a quick look at what's new! New...

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A video went viral this week showing two AIs talking to each other, as if on the phone (see...

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I recently wrote about why Mini Micro's display is 960 x 640 pixels. In short: that's a reasonably...

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New users of Mini Micro often notice very quickly that the screen resolution is fixed; if have a big...

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Years ago I wrote a blog post called "Why MiniScript?" It explained the reasons for creating...

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I've written here before about Mini Micro's 8-layer display system. Each layer can be configured to...

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If you want to get stronger, you exercise every day. If you want to get better at dancing, you dance...

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Mini Micro is the free neo-retro virtual computer that is a popular environment for writing...

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Back in the 1980s, I came home from school to happily hack away on the family computer, an Apple //e...

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The MiniScript community has been really growing lately, in part due to our partnership with...

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Last month for Micro Jam 018, a game jam with the theme "Water" and restriction "health is power",...

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In MiniScript, as in some other languages, it is common to write a file that's intended to be...

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Over the weekend I got the urge to create a Solitaire card game for Mini Micro. I completed it...

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Today let's do a little project in Mini Micro that makes an old-school digital clock. This will...

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You can use command-line MiniScript to write shell scripts that can be invoked directly, just like...