LowRes NX Coder 9+
Program retro games in BASIC!
Timo Kloss
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Make your own retro games on a virtual game console. Program in the classic BASIC language and create sprites, tile maps, sound and music with the included tools. As a beginner you will quickly understand how to create simple text games or show your first sprite on a tile map. As an experienced programmer you can discover the full potential of retro hardware tricks!
Virtual Game Console
Imagine LowRes NX as a handheld game console with a d-pad, two action buttons and a little rubber keyboard below a slidable touchscreen. LowRes NX was inspired by real 8- and 16-bit systems and simulates chips for graphics, sound and I/O, which actually work like classic hardware. It supports hardware sprites as well as hardware parallax scrolling, and even offers vertical blank and raster interrupts to create authentic retro effects.
Old-School Programming
The programming language of LowRes NX is based on second-generation, structured BASIC. It offers all the classic commands, but with labels, loops and subprograms instead of line numbers. Graphics and sound are supported by additional commands and you can even access the virtual hardware directly using PEEK and POKE. You have complete control over the program flow, there is no standard update function to implement.
Creative Tools
LowRes NX includes all the tools you need: The Gfx Designer for editing sprites, tiles, fonts and maps, as well as the Sound Composer for music and sound effects. All of these are just normal BASIC programs. You can change and improve them or even create your own custom editors.
Share and Play
Send your games directly to other users or share them via the website. All programs are open source, so you can play them, learn from them and edit them. Do you prefer making just art or music? Share your creations as assets and let other programmers use them in their projects.
What’s New
Version 1.13
- New tool Gfx Designer 2.0
- iCloud conflict handling
- Improved support for physical keyboards
- Bugfixes
Ratings and Reviews
I’m on phone where’s escape key
I don’t know if it’s just me but I don’t think it’s possible that I can enter the edit menu like it says in the tutorial as I can’t use the escape key on my phone so I can’t make tiles for my game. Would be 5 stars if you could fix the issue or tell me how to do it on my phone
Developer Response ,
Hi! The manual is for both the desktop and the mobile app. There are small icons in the manual to indicate to which platform it refers. Just ignore the desktop app infos and follow the mobile app instructions.
The mobile app has an edit button in the editor, where you can start the Design tools.
Love it
Really like this app but am a noob. I’m a pixel artist trying to learn programming and need more tutorials to build up to making a basic game. Would be great to have like a progressive set of tutorials to say reach the point of being able to make a simple shooter. Just need some more direction great fun app though!
Great app
It works really well!!!
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Information
- Provider
- Timo Kloss
- Size
- 26.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2018-2021 Timo Kloss
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Large donation £9.99
- Medium donation £4.99
- Small donation £1.99