Just playing around, I really like the price point of the Pico, especially now that it has wifi. I'm also interested in trying the PIO programming at some point, but it's not needed for the first project.martyn_hill wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 12:42 pm Ooo! Intriguing project, Daniele!
Any comments to add???
The board itself is just an interface to the QL ROM bus, could be used for anything that doesn't require the extra signals available on the side expansion, so no RAM expansion for example, but in theory it could run tcp/ip (no plans to do that myself, though), perhaps math acceleration, sound, MIDI, external keyboard, bluetooth devices, etc.
The first project I will attempt will be a wifi microdrive.
I've read about the OqtaDrive and it seems it already does wifi among so many other things, but it requires pairing it with a Pi Zero and can only work as MDV 3+ unless you use it to replace the internal microdrive. I assume it's also relatively slow as it goes through the ZX8302.
If that can be made to work, my next project could be a wifi ROM chooser. It would require very tight timing, though, and the Pico to start before the 68008, so not sure whether it's possible.
