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RetroJoe

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Joined: 06/08/2020
Location: Canada
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Posted: 08:52am 26 May 2021

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Very nice!!

I hope the PicoMite and/or a Color PicoMite (with HDMI??) is in our future. Given the general buzz and momentum around the Pico, even in its first generation, it could become a very popular "cheap and cheerful" platform for MMBasic.

This is just conjecture on my part, as my personal MM experience begins and ends with the CMM2 (and my abortive attempt to get an F4 running...), but it sounds like some of the "Mitey veterans" are also intrigued,

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been blown away by the quality & quantity of the support & tooling for the Pico in such a short time - it's like the Pico ecosystem was born "all grown up" on Day One.

Peter, do my impressions match your experience in the real world i.e. how hard has been it to port MMBasic to the Pico vis-a-vis other platforms?

Enjoy Every Sandwich / Joe P.

Grogster

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Posted: 03:18am 28 May 2021

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My GUESS would be it was easier, as the PICO is just the plain ARM processor albeit with some bootloader code in it, so it PROBABLY is easier to port to this, then in any of the other PI's, where you HAVE to use Raspbian OS in order to get access to things like HDMI output and SD card control etc - all hidden behind the binary-blob and the NDA between the foundation and Broadcom for those chips and those setups.

As the PICO does not have any of those kinds of restrictions and no HDMI license to worry about etc, it's just like porting to any other processor family.

I THINK.

I would also love to hear if it was a mission to port or not.

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

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