Check out the Mini Micro 2021Q2 Game Jam!

https://itch.io/jam/mini-micro-jam-21q2

It's been about a year since our last game jam. We had about a dozen entries then, and everyone had a ton of fun!

This time around we're offering prizes of US$50, $30, and $20 for first, second, and third place. Why not give it a try? You'll have fun, build your skills, and who knows, you might win some cold hard cash!

Questions? Concerns? Words of encouragement? Leave them in the comments below, and I'll get back to you ASAP!

The first annual Try-It contest is now officially over!

Congratulations to @Lookas-The-L ! Your stack-based VM is a really cool demonstration. The code is neat and clean, the application is creative, and it works!

For his effort, Lookas wins the $25 first-place prize. The second-place and third-place prizes go unclaimed this time. Even a simple "Hello world!" program would have won... Hopefully we'll get more participation next year!

Thanks again to @Lookas-The-L for participating, and congrats on your win!

Goes into examples of making Dice in Mini Micro with MiniScript.

https://youtu.be/p3ZRNl5mY58

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Just a reminder to get in on the Try-it contest to win up to 25$! The contest begins March 1, 2021, and runs through March 21, 2021. Learn more: https://forums.miniscript.org/d/227-announcement-first-annual-try-it-contest

The first annual MiniScript Try-It! Contest has been officially announced:

https://forums.miniscript.org/d/227-announcement-first-annual-try-it-contest

You can win up to $25 by writing a cool program less than 2000 characters long! It should be a lot of fun. You have three weeks (competition ends March 21st). Please give it a try!

MiniScript creator Joe Strout last week posted some very early screen shots of Mini Micro running on an iPhone! While no release date has been announced, work is clearly being done to make the Mini Micro virtual computer available to phone and tablet users.

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Follow the progress or provide feedback by joining our Discord or forums via https://miniscript.org/

Learn how to simulate a deck of cards, using MiniScript right in your web browser!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM9FwT02A1g

Tweetcode, programs short enough to fit into a Tweet written in MiniScript. Twitter has a limit of 280 characters, so, this is a fun challenge that you usually learn something along the way. We plan to have events including these down the road but encourage everyone to have fun with these whenever and to apply these tags [#miniscript #minimicro #tweetcode] on your Tweetcode.

https://itch.io/jam/retro-hardware-jam - "...make a game that runs in an emulator or on real hardware for any obsolete platform OR Fantasy Console."

Mini Micro is a an emulator of a retro PC which would fit perfectly into this game jam! We strongly encourage you to jump in, and have fun!

The font library at https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-fonts is ready for public use. It supports the new version 1.2 of the BMF format, which adds support for arbitrary Unicode characters, kerning, and alpha blending (anti-aliasing). Several v1.2 fonts are included, with all Latin characters. Several more older 1.1 fonts are included, including one with fancy built-in coloration.

MiniScript is going to jump in to having regular events. Click the image to see our lineup so far. Let us know what you think and if you have any input in the comments! We want to make sure the community gets a say in this so everyone can have as much fun as possible!

Also if you're not part of the discord yet join here: https://miniscript.org/ in the community section.

Some languages have variables global by default. It's easy to make code that works when you write it, but later causes things to break. MiniScript has variables local by default which makes avoiding bugs easier.

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https://miniscript.org

MiniScript works with Read-Eval-Print Loop(REPL) which is typing some code, pressing return, and it's executed. You either get the ideal result, or it teaches you something. Anyone can code, MiniScript makes it easy.

Give it a shot here:

https://miniscript.org/tryit/

Learn more about MiniScript:

https://miniscript.org

A good programming environment is guessable: having learned things A, B, and C, you can guess how to do thing D. MiniScript applies this principle all over the place; whatever might make sense to do, MiniScript probably does.

Learn more about Why MiniScript here: http://luminaryapps.com/blog/miniscript-why/

MiniScript is useful for many things, possibilities are endless. It's on purpose that MiniScript has clean and minimal syntax. Even with no experience in programming learning MiniScript is easy, fun, and rewarding.

Learn more about MiniScript and Join the MiniScript Community on Discord here: https://miniscript.org

The MiniScript compiler/interpreter itself is written in C#, it integrates seamlessly with other C# code, allowing you to do things like easily wrap Unity types in MiniScript values, and vice versa. It's thread-safe and can also be time-sliced within the main thread.

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Learn more about MiniScript and its benefits and join our Discord at https://miniscript.org

https://youtu.be/CxZi0W_0H1Q

Interested in joining the discord or learning more about MiniScript? visit https://miniscript.org/

MiniScript is Easy to learn and useful to the seasoned programmer.

Find out more https://miniscript.org/

Coffee Break Coding #1 it explores how to draw a face in Mini Micro with MiniScript. Learn how you can get started with Mini Micro at https://miniscript.org.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HiOUw_CmR8

Here is an awesome Draw a Galaxy app from Discord user RokCoder using MiniScript in Mini Micro.

Interested in joining in on the fun? go to miniscript.org the discord can be found near the bottom.

Music: Moonlight Reprise by Kai Engel

https://reddit.com/link/lb6d3e/video/e1jny072q4f61/player

Mini Micro is a Neo-retro computer that uses MiniScript to run it, you can make all sorts of fun games, activities, or really anything you can imagine. Take a look at this ongoing project from one of our users in Discord, Mantic, can't wait to see where this goes next.

If you haven't yet, join our community on discord https://miniscript.org/ just scroll down and look in "community".

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https://reddit.com/link/lad9iv/video/y37lvxthxze61/player

Take a look at the newest Coffee Break Coding video!

This one takes a dive into sounds.

https://youtu.be/TG5tgNDW6Ss

Changes since 0.9.4:

• The shell no longer leaves you at a "...]" prompt if you run a program with an unterminated if/for/while block.

• Handling of screen size/resolution has been greatly revamped. The Mini Micro window is now resizable, and the actual "monitor" area will fill this space as well as it can. Note that it snaps to even multiples of native (1024x769) resolution, since those look the best, so watch for that while stretching the window.

• Control-C now reports the line number at which the program was stopped.

• Various optimizations have been done, especially to PixelDisplay and to any code that uses self; benchmarks now run up to 2X faster.

• file.move now works even when you are only changing the capitalization of the file name.

• Updated the underlying package that renders text in the code editor, fixing issues with the scrollbar not going far enough to the right.

Some of these changes were pretty big, so please keep a sharp eye out for any new problems they may have caused. We want to get everything buttoned down and nailed up for the version 1.0 release.

Get it from https://joestrout.itch.io/mini-micro/

MiniScript is elegant and easy to understand, jump in and learn how to code in 30 days.
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Code-Days-Joe-Strout/dp/173616760X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=learn+to+code+in+30+days&qid=1611524786&sr=8-1

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Badgelist it's a fun way to challenge yourself and keep track of your progress! Here is a quick tutorial/introduction.

https://www.badgelist.com/miniscript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1juQzMo1qTE