I Made an Online Playground for Classic SNES Graphics

Before GPUs, the Super Nintendo drew everything with a dedicated chip: the PPU. ppu.toys puts that whole chip in your browser. Colors, tiles, backgrounds, scanline effects, sprites, sound, and Lua code you own. Try it: https://ppu.toys 0:00 Before GPUs 0:34 ppu.toys 0:52 Colors: CGRAM 1:16 Tiles: VRAM 1:35 Painting backgrounds 2:22 Scrolling & scanline effects (HDMA) 3:31 It's all code 3:58 Real art: importing assets 5:12 Two screens & color math 6:05 Sprites: the fox 6:44 Writing the game in Lua 7:08 Making music 8:23 Share on the wall 8:37 What else the PPU can do 9:27 Your turn Art: "Sunny Land" by Luis Zuno (ansimuz), CC0, pixelgameart.org GitHub: https://github.com/LioraLabs/ppu.toys Discord:   / discord