I stumbled onto this today:
It built fine and seems to run under uf2loader on my Pico2W . After a few false starts I realized that the contents (two .lua files) of load81-picocalc/load81 need to be copied to the SD under /load81. The start.lua also needs to be edited to specify the wifi SSID and password. Note that you can edit the file directly on the PicoCalc by pressing “E” after the menu screen comes up. It takes a while for the menu to come up.
I still had problems getting a connection, and nex.lua didn’t work without one. Presumably other load81 style lua scripts would work, but I haven’t tried any others yet.
Still, seems like a promising project. It offers another option for Lua development on the PicoCalc, and the nex stuff is particularly interesting as it seems to be used as a sort of simplified web browser. It’s akin to the gemini protocol (not the AI thing but like the archie or gopher protocols from ages ago). An example of nex in action (using a browser proxy) is avialable here: https://nightfall.city/nex/
Seems like the perfect sort of hypertext-lite browser option for a PicoCalc!
Maybe someone else will have better luck getting it to work, or perhaps the project just needs a little more time and bugfixes before it’s ready to go.
The original load81 that this is a port of, is available here:
Seems like this project might also serve as an example of porting an SDL-based environment to PicoCalc.
Again, I’m not the developer for this, and only just stumbled onto it today. But I figured it was worth sharing here. Kudos to the developer for sharing this on github.