🇦🇺 Amstrad CPC PicoROM: Part 2 (New & Improved!) [TCE #0542]
29@MBCallow has made some major improvements to his firmware (v3.1) so it's now very simple to load ROMs onto the PICOROM and then activate on the CPC:
https://github.com/mattcallow/CPC_PICOROM
ROMs can be found on the CPC Wiki here:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/ROM_List
00:00 ... Intro
01:00 ... 1st step: copying UF2 file to RPI-RP2 device
01:18 ... 2nd step: format/initialise PICOROM (if first time)
03:10 ... Copying files across
06:15 ... Testing it out
06:40 ... Default configuration
08:50 ... GAMES1 configuration
12:50 ... GAMES2 configuration
15:50 ... Channel thanks/outro
Once you have your ROMs then you just need to edit the CFG configuration files to list which ROMs you want loaded under each configuration. The PICOROM uses the FAT file system so there is no need to worry about the filename case, but I replaced any [space] with an underscore [_] just to be safe.
I had no issues flashing the Pico with his new firmware and then copying the Amstrad ROMs (and configuration files) onto the device from my Mac machine - it acts just like a USB drive.
I tried it out on my Schneider CPC, and I'm planning to try it out on the Amstrad 464plus and 6128plus as well (with a suitable Centronics-to-edge connector, and then one with a built-in Centronics connector). It should work on Amstrad CPC 464, 664 and 6128.
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