C64 Emulator on PicoCalc

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Anyone think this is a possibilty on the PicoCalc?

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Definitely it’s possible. Main problem is to modify the silvervest project to have the pico screen and keyboard recognized.
I’m a C64 fun myself, so that would be great to turn a picocalc into a picoc64!

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Sure, the screen chip driver are the same as on the picocalc, but the source code use the 9341 one in compatibility mode. Need some tuning and test on the real hardware…
But yes, the keyboard I2C interface is probably uncompatible and must be rewritten.
MCUME support Zx Spectrum emulation too, that’s great!

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This would be amazing! 15yo me would do anything to carry around a C64 in my pocket!

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Does M.CU.M.E. work properly on PicoCalc for ZX Spectrum emulation?

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Picoarch is avaliable now but your need to use Lyra pico and cfw. C64 should have a core soon but there are plenty other cores avaliable.

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Didn’t tried, I can’t say. :confused:

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External antenna mod?

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Hi yes ready for a majestic setup or lora.

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I’m immediately intrigued

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I saw this YouTube video where a guy ported/forked MCUME for the PicoCalc. This is the GitHub repo:

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Like this?

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If I understand correctly, does this mean that not only the C64 emulator will work on PicoCalc, but also the PC XT? If not, what would need to be done in MCUME? How is keyboard or display operation handled there?

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Thanks for the link, if some of you are interested I “ported” Ken’s port to the Pico2W and have a pico64 working on my pico2w updated PicoCalc. It is quite early work and not totally functional but already quite cool.

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I had a look and I must say that even though MCUME is a great thing it is not easy to work on, the different emulators still implement loads of low-level and the code is not that modular with lots of hard-coded parts that are tied to this or that hardware. So there is quite a lot of work for each emulator, it is not “just” a matter of adding some product wide hardware support. That does not mean it is impossible.

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Can you share your work on git?

I’m sure lots will be interested.

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Sure, I will look into this. It is going to be a fork of a fork :slight_smile: You can already look at Ken’s port as mine is just an adaptation of his work (and not pretty)

Ken’s PicoCalc MCUME port (pico1 only)

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