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"Atari Portfolio (https://www.pouet.net/lists.php?which=237) - not enough prods, there is a single one so far?"
New prods for Atari Portfolio:
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94602
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94622
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94956

Is it enough now?

I second that idea.

I highly suggest a Mac OSX M1 platform.

I also highly suggest a Nintendo 3DS platform.

Yes please. People keep using the "MacOS" (which is meant for old MacOS 68k/PPC) platform for this and I have to send edit requests for all the productions (and assign them to Mac OSX Intel which also isn't right...)

while we're being pedantic, it's "Mac OS" for classic macs, "Mac OS X" after, and now "macOS"

how about renaming the existing mac categories to "Mac OS Classic" and "macOS", as of now there's most apple silicon -supporting demos are universal binaries (although that's almost guaranteed to change in a couple years again)

The Mac OS platform needs to be subdivided.

at least call it "macOS ARM" then instead of M1 which would also be incorrect. although that would be keeping in line with the current naming convention so :shrug:

How did we do it for Windows when it had so many versions. Just say Mac?

That is a bad comparison because windows is more backwards compatible robust comparing to Macs which have atleast 3 severe backwards compatibility breaks across it's history.

misterFPGA custom machine building and demo-for-it-writing platform ?

macOS Apple Silicon
macOS Intel
leave it at that

I highly suggest making the Nintendo 3DS as an available platform.

The Nintendo 3DS now have 10 prods referenced on Pouët.
Here is an (eventual) icon for a new category: https://hitchhikr.net/3ds.png

I guess ideally, new icons should be SVG?

browser as a platform, when?

over at demozoo it's even more, currently 11 demos and 6 cracktros:
https://demozoo.org/productions/?platform=71

100% this, the sizecoding advantage is actually real on these

JavaScript already exists, of course. But yep, I agree that "Browser" would be a much better name for the platform category, given that its rise from "comedy alternative to Flash" to "viable platform for actual demos" has very little to do with JavaScript as a language and everything to do with new browser APIs, and I'd be in favour of renaming it.

yeah I think the move would be to rename "javascript" to "browser", this way we could also have shadertoy / glsl-sandbox entries (like this,this and that) as well as cables entries like this and this, and a few size coding prods properly categorized. You might dislike the "browser as a platform" notion but it's real, and it's been here for a while now.

The question here is, what icon to use, I have trouble coming up with a vendor agnostic icon for a browser, maybe a globe? Or go and use the old, now defunct internet explorer icon?

i recently tried running some older "browser demos" on a more recent iteration of that browser and was severely disappointed, so eehhrhrrrm don't quite see the point tbh

Why not ? One point would be that I can finally add my glsl-sandbox entries (linked in my previous post) to pouet, another one would be that we don't have a bunch of "fake" windows or linux prods which are actually cross platform browser based demos.

There'll always be old prods not running on modern iterations of that platform, it's not like old windows demos run 99% of the time, especially not once you go shopping in the size-coding section, so I don't see how that invalidates having a browser platform.

Imho "javascript" as a platform is kinda a misnomer to begin with, where are the C#, Visual Basic, Rust, C++ platforms, there are none because these are languages not platforms. Yes there's "Java", "PHP" and "Flash" but those each have their own feature complete runtimes, javascript on the other hand does not, javascript on its own doesn't have any means of output, the browser does.