WASM-4 Support

[jonititan]

Perhaps a useful future feature would be support for WASM-4 "carts"?
https://wasm4.org/docs/

It targets retrogaming and can be run in small devices as well as online.

• 4 color 160x160 pixel display
• 64 KB of memory
• 2 button gamepad

[thejpster]

Interesting! I'll check it out, thanks.

[jonititan]

Apparently some have ported it to small devices already. https://twitter.com/alvaroviebrantz/status/1518343016011943939?s=20 In particular using the wasm3_engine including to run things on the pi Pico. https://twitter.com/wasm3_engine/status/1360505531559985152?s=20 Might not be the best way for the Neotron-Pico but shows the hardware itself can cope.

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[thejpster]

When the OS gains loadable applications I suggest this is written as a loadable application. There's probably nothing we need to change in the design of the Neotron Pico to support this though.

[jonititan]

I think once that point is reached it would be a definite enhancement and would make the Neotron even more attractive as a retro computing target. The one issue being the multiplayer support of WASM-4. Your previous comment on it not being a good idea to connect the Neotron to the web is quite reasonable but does limit multiplayer to local lan. However in that instance I'm not sure if WASM-4 can make the connections. It relying on WebRTC and using WASM-4 servers for STUN & TURN they may not have a local mode anticipated. In their dev tutorials you run a server which allows local network devices to join.(cool qr code joining method) So it may be a non issue.

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[jonititan]

https://wasm4.org/docs/guides/multiplayer/#netplay

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