PicoEmulation on PicoCalc?

Did anyone consider potentially porting some of the cool retroemulation projects that already run on Raspberry Pi pico hardware to the PicoCalc? Two that come to mind are PicoMac (GitHub - evansm7/pico-mac: Run the popular umac emulator right on your Pi Pico!) and Pico-ZxSpectrum (GitHub - fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum: ZX Spectrum for Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 and RP2350). There is so much potential on PicoCalc that itโ€™s even hard to stay focused :slight_smile:

Flavio

2 Likes

I think it is possible but I am not sure if it will actually work. I asked the creator of ZXBaremulator, a ZX Spectrum emulator that runs on different versions of Raspberry Pi and it is almost like having a real working device, but unfortunately he replied that the model used for PicoCalc is not compatible. I am searching for other solutions and I am hoping that someone could eventually make this work properly. I also asked if another emulator called M.CU.M.E. would work on a PicoCalc. The response was that I would configure the firmware of the PicoCalc in order to make it work. Maybe in the future there will be a Raspberry Pi Pico ZX Spectrum bare emulator that will work on the PicoCalc.

2 Likes