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I want to get some paid software, not nessecariky games but general software, any idea on where to look?

Mainly dev tools and things like thaf

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I ditched paid software instead I'm using open source, web app (ex photopia,gimp), and free trial abuse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing I need doesn't have a trial and no Foss alternative I know of

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Am j even allowed to ask? Pico8

Would pay but I only have cash, no cards

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was asking probably someone know a FOSS alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Found tic 80, seems good

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried FOSS? I use it for everything and pirating software is likely going to infect your computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Notnsure about any alternatives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just search FOSS alternatives, there's a plethora of websites for finding those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Alternativeto.net

[–] MajorHavoc 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pirating dev tools in 2024 sounds like a misstep to me. Most of us (professional developers) gave up paid software about a decade ago.

There's so much competition for developer eyeballs, we (professional developers) have become accustomed to there being a good-enough free version of every good tool.

Usually the paid version just adds enterprise bullshit that only managers of developers (such as myself) want.

If you're worried that the "community edition" of the dev tool you want to try is under-powered, most aren't. To be sure, you might ask over in one of the programming Lemmy's.

Edit: And to be clear, I pirated the hell out of the developer tools I learned on, as a kid. I highly approve, and most developers do, of pirating dev tools to learn. But due to that community value, the free versions of great dev tools are almost always fully featured, today (finally).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The tool i need is pico8, I found a link but its an outdated version

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Heya, if you need pico 8, you might like to try https://tic80.com/ . Tic-80 is a Foss pico-8 like software that has a basic and has some pico to tic conversion scripts that can convert between the formats. Hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 6 months ago

Ditto on the Tic-80 recommendation. It's pretty sweet.

Also, you may want to check out Pyxel which is extremely similar, and also free, but the games are coded in Python.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't want to run proprietary software even if it had negative price and the developer paid me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for donating!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yea. I personally don't like proprietary either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Haven’t had problems with filecr.com but use at you own risk as usual

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With something so niche as pico-8, you are probably better off just biting the bullet... In your shoes I'd investigate if there are viable FOSS alternatives and, failing that, just fork the 15USD the developer of PICO-8 asks for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Trying tic 80