Show HN: Browser in C and Lua for the Playdate Console

1 points by remywang 2 months ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

ORBIT is a pretty unique web browser designed exclusively for the Playdate console [1]. First, the cursor is inspired by the spaceship in the classic ASTEROIDS game, and controlled by Playdate's famous crank. Second, it doesn't support arbitrary web pages. Instead it implements an architecture I call the "exo web browser": for HTML, there is custom code for rendering each specific site, making sure the site will look right on Playdate's tiny, monochrome screen; alternatively, there's also another backend directly rendering Markdown. I also made the cuniform font [2] used in the browser based on GNU unifont. It's still very barebones, but I already use it to read news everyday.

[1]: https://play.date [2]: https://github.com/remysucre/cuniform

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