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The tunnel from Claude maar wat aan, a TIC-80 demo

Claude maar wat aan: deFEEST's TIC-80 demo, 13th at Outline 2026. Nothing comes from YouTube until you press play.

TIC-80, the fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games, running natively on the Konsool. The whole studio is there: console, code editor, sprite, map, sound and music editors, and the surf browser.

Write carts in Lua on the Konsool's own keyboard. Fn turns the arrow keys into a mouse pointer, or plug a USB keyboard, mouse or gamepad into its port. The picture is scaled and turned by the ESP32-P4's pixel processing accelerator, so the CPU is left for the game.

Put it on your Konsool

  1. Connect the Konsool to this computer with USB.
  2. On the Konsool, press the purple diamond: a USB icon shows top right. That is BadgeLink mode.
  3. Press Install and pick Tanmatsu in the list: that is your Konsool.

    Straight from the Konsool's own app repository, as its app store would. It works in Chrome and Edge. On Linux the browser may only open the Konsool with badgelink's udev rule, 60-badgelink.rules, in /etc/udev/rules.d/.

    Made with Claude: this port and this page were written with an AI, and run on a real badge.