The fifth release of the PICO-56. Includes the PICO-56 boot menu to select a ROM image from MicroSD card. Defaults to HBC-56 BASIC if no SDCard is present.

Installation

Hold down the 'BOOTSEL' button while plugging the Raspberry Pi Pico into a PC using a MicroUSB cable.
Wait a moment for the Pico to appear as an external drive.
Drag the release ".UF2" file on to the mounted Raspberry Pi Pico.
Wait for the Raspberry Pi Pico to unmount and reboot.

PICO 2 Support

This release includes builds for both the Raspberry Pi Pico (pico-56-0-5.uf2) and the Pi Pico 2 (pico2-56-0-5.uf2).

MicroSD card contents

pico-56-roms-v0-5.zip contains a number of sample ROMs and BASIC programs. Drag into theroot folder of a FAT32 formatted microSD card. These are compatible with both Pico and Pico 2 builds.

Tutorials

pico-56-tutorials-v0-5.zip contains the Pi Pico flash images for the various tutorials such as the Bouncing Ball demo. These can be flashed to the Pico in the same way as the PICO-56 image.pico2-56-tutorials-v0-5.zip for Pi Pico 2.

Changes

• Updated to Pico SDK v2.0.0
• Added support for Pi Pico 2
• BASIC: Added LOAD "$" command. Usage:

LOAD "$"LIST

The fourth release of the PICO-56. Includes the PICO-56 boot menu to select a ROM image from MicroSD card. Defaults to HBC-56 BASIC if no SDCard is present.

Installation

Hold down the 'BOOTSEL' button while plugging the Raspberry Pi Pico into a PC using a MicroUSB cable.
Wait a moment for the Pico to appear as an external drive.
Drag the release ".UF2" file on to the mounted Raspberry Pi Pico.
Wait for the Raspberry Pi Pico to unmount and reboot.

MicroSD card contents

pico56-roms-.zip contains a number of sample ROMs and BASIC programs. Drag into theroot folder of a FAT32 formatted microSD card.

Tutorials

pico56-tutorials-.zip contains the Pi Pico flash images for the various tutorials such as the Bouncing Ball demo. These can be flashed to the Pico in the same way as the PICO-56 image.

Changes

Enhancements to BASIC including:

• Implementing UNPLOT X,Y
• Implementing CLS for DISPLAY 2 mode
• Fixed COLOR function to update background color register
• Disabled kernel console interrupt during DISPLAY 2 mode

New BASIC example programs:

• leaf.bas: Generate a "Barnsley Fern"
• draw.bas: Etch-a-sketch style drawing program using the NES controller

The third release of the PICO-56. Includes the PICO-56 boot menu to select a ROM image from MicroSD card. Defaults to HBC-56 BASIC if no SDCard is present.

Installation

Hold down the 'BOOTSEL' button while plugging the Raspberry Pi Pico into a PC using a MicroUSB cable.
Wait a moment for the Pico to appear as an external drive.
Drag the release ".UF2" file on to the mounted Raspberry Pi Pico.
Wait for the Raspberry Pi Pico to unmount and reboot.

MicroSD card contents

pico56-roms-.zip contains a number of sample ROMs and BASIC programs. Drag into theroot folder of a FAT32 formatted microSD card.

Tutorials

pico56-tutorials-.zip contains the Pi Pico flash images for the various tutorials such as the Bouncing Ball demo. These can be flashed to the Pico in the same way as the PICO-56 image.

The second release of the PICO-56. Includes the PICO-56 boot menu to select a ROM image from MicroSD card. Defaults to HBC-56 BASIC if no SDCard is present.

Installation

Hold down the 'BOOTSEL' button while plugging the Raspberry Pi Pico into a PC using a MicroUSB cable.
Wait a moment for the Pico to appear as an external drive.
Drag the release ".UF2" file on to the mounted Raspberry Pi Pico.
Wait for the Raspberry Pi Pico to unmount and reboot.

MicroSD card contents

pico56-roms-<version>.zip contains a number of sample ROMs and BASIC programs. Drag into theroot folder of a FAT32 formatted microSD card.

Initial release

The first release of the PICO-56. Includes the PICO-56 boot menu to select a ROM image from MicroSD card. Defaults to HBC-56 BASIC if no SDCard is present.

Installation

1. Hold down the 'BOOTSEL' button while plugging the Raspberry Pi Pico into a PC using a MicroUSB cable.
2. Wait a moment for the Pico to appear as an external drive.
3. Drag the release ".UF2" file on to the mounted Raspberry Pi Pico.
4. Wait for the Raspberry Pi Pico to unmount and reboot.