Plug Things In
Plug in the following:
- HDMI cable into Fruit Jam DVI-D Video Output port
- Other end of HDMI cable to monitor or TV
- 3.5mm TRS audio cable into Fruit Jam Stereo Headphone port
- Other end of audio cable to powered speakers or headphones
- Keyboard into Fruit Jam USB 1 port
- Gamepad into Fruit Jam USB 2 port
- USB C power into Fruit Jam USB C Power & Data port
- MicroSD card into the Fruit Jam MicroSD card slot
Turn on the Fruit Jam's power switch. The PICO-8 startup text will appear and you'll see a prompt waiting for you to type a command. Try these:
> INFO This will show you info about the wili8jam PICO-8 version as well as hardware status and data
WILI8JAM 0.10 PSRAM: 8192 KB SD: SDHC AUDIO: READY READY.
> HELP This lists all of the commands you can run
** WILI8JAM 0.10 **
COMMANDS:
LOAD LOAD < CART >
SAVE SAVE < CART >
RUN RUN CART
LS LS [DIR]
CD CD < DIR >
RM RM < FILE >
CLS CLS
EDIT EDIT [CART]
REBOOT REBOOT
INFO INFO
HELP HELP [CMD]
HELP < CMD > FOR MORE INFO
> LS This lists the contents of the current directory, or you can use a path such as LS /CARTS to see what's in the carts folder
BOUNCE.P8 CAST.P8 CELESTE2.P8 COLLIDE.P8 DOTS3D.P8 DRIPPY.P8 HELLO.P8 JELPI.P8 SORT.P8 WANDER.P8 WAVES.P8 WILIWAVES.P8
Load a Cartridge
> LOAD Loads a program cart into memory so you can run it. Try this:
> LOAD /HELLO.P8 or you can play it casual and simply type
> LOAD HELLO
Escape
Press the esc key on your keyboard to switch from the running cart program to the editor. You can use the arrow keys to navigate and then edit the text.
Save
If you edit the code you can press esc again to get back to the prompt.
Then, > SAVE your code with a new file name and then LOAD and RUN it as shown here.
Here's some CELESTE2:
PICO-8 Cartridges
You can find loads of games and programs for PICO-8 online. Here are some resources:
Here are some curated lists:
Note that this version is in its early days and may not run all cartridges.
SD Card
To play your downloaded games, simply drag them onto your SD card on your computer. Then pop the card into the Fruit Jam, boot it up, and load games from the /CARTS directory.
CRT Usage
If you've got an old CRT television, you can use an HDMI to analog video convert to pretty good effect. Since we're sending 640 x 480 over HDMI many converter boxes can manage the analog output at 480i.
The one I've used here is this model.
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