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by nickloewen 1196 days ago
This looks great.

I have been hoping to make a Pico into a little 8-bit-micro style computer, but there’s lots to learn first!

I bought Pimoroni’s VGA demo board (https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-demo-ba...), which provides a readymade version of the VGA implementation “Hardware Design with RP2040.”

There are a few emulators that I think should work with that:

- PICOVIC: https://github.com/jfoucher/picovic

- b-em: https://github.com/kilograham/b-em

- pico-zxspectrum: https://github.com/fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum

I haven’t got any to run yet, but I haven’t tried very hard either.

(There’s also the Picomite, which looks great, but unfortunately uses a different VGA implementation: https://geoffg.net/picomite.html)