https://github.com/poeticandroid/homegirl

A fantasy console inspired by the Amiga computer
https://github.com/poeticandroid/homegirl

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A fantasy console inspired by the Amiga computer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/poeticandroid/homegirl
• Owner: poeticAndroid
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-01T14:53:23.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: dev
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-25T15:34:15.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-17T01:34:02.567Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: D
• Homepage:
• Size: 12.6 MB
• Stars: 81
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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![Icon](./images/homegirl.png) Homegirl

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It's a fantasy console (like pico-8 or tic-80) inspired by the Commodore Amiga!

![Amigaaah!](./images/homegirl_screentitles.gif)

👇 [Get the FULL version of Homegirl on itch.io](https://poeticandroid.itch.io/homegirl)

[![Download!](./images/itch.png) ![Icon](./images/homegirl.png)](https://poeticandroid.itch.io/homegirl)

It has graphic resolutions similar to the OCS Amigas, multitasking, multiple screens and windows etc.. It has 4 channel 8-bit stereo sound and ability to mount web-servers as drives..

The software for it, is based on Lua, which is a pretty simple and fast scripting language..

[Follow #HomegirlFC on Twitter!](https://twitter.com/hashtag/HomegirlFC)

[**Join the community on Discord!**](https://discord.gg/ND4FErK)

Specs

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 - **Programming language:** Lua ([See API documentation](https://github.com/poeticAndroid/homegirl/tree/master/system_drive/docs/core/))

 - **Screen resolutions:** Multiple screen modes ranging from 80x45 to 640x480 pixels

 - **Number of colors:** Up to 256 colors from a palette of 4096 colors

 - **Audio:** Four 8-bit PCM channels in stereo, playback up to 32 kHz

 - **Input:** Text, mouse, game and audio input..

 - **Filesystem:** Named drives which can be mapped to local folders or websites

 - **Native filetypes:** GIF for images and animations, WAV for sound samples

Installation

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Download and extract [latest release](https://github.com/poeticAndroid/homegirl/releases/latest) for your OS and run the `homegirl` executable from the same folder.. If it doesn't work, make sure you have the following libraries installed (a setup script may be provided):

  - [SDL2 2.0.8](https://www.libsdl.org/)

  - [Lua 5.3](https://www.lua.org/)

  - [FreeImage 3.18](http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/)

  - libcurl ([Windows](http://downloads.dlang.org/other/index.html) | [other](https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/))