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LeoNicolas

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Joined: 07/10/2020
Location: Canada
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Posted: 09:58pm 24 Jul 2026

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Another World video game micropython engine port for the Pico 3 computer

I don't have the board yet to test it running on a real hardware. The following video has been record on my laptop running the game on the Pico 3 PC emulator (Thank you Peter!).

Demo Video

Source code: https://github.com/leonicolas/pico3_python_another_world

Game files: https://www.gog.com/en/game/another_world_20th_anniversary_edition

Pico 3 PC Emulator: https://github.com/UKTailwind/micropython/releases/latest

How to run it:

1) From your terminal run the Pico 3 PC Emulator (./pc3emu) and close it. The first execution will create the ~/.pc3emu directory
2) Clone the port git repository to ~/.pc3emu/sd/aw where aw is the project root directory
3) Copy the game/DAT directory to the aw directory
4) From your terminal run the Pico 3 PC Emulator again
5) On the python terminal type
a) cd("sd/aw")
b) run("main.py",".","--pico3")

Play the game using the arrow keys or WASD and the space bar
To close the game, press Escape or Q

Sound suport is not implemented yet

JulesO
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Joined: 08/09/2025
Location: France
Posts: 20

Posted: 01:27am 25 Jul 2026

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Very impressive !!!!!

MMBasic and the whole PicoMite ecosystem are evolving so quickly that it's hard to keep up! A huge thank you to you and the entire community for the amazing work you're all doing.

Volhout
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Joined: 05/03/2018
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: 05:26am 25 Jul 2026

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Leo,

Can't wait to see a real port on pico.
Your programs (KM/outrun) all run on PC emulated. The first pico port would be amazing.

Volhout

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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 10:43am 25 Jul 2026

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I still need to optimize the framebuffer copy. I need to learn more about the blit and palette commands on the Pico 3 micropython for 4bpp

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