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 the root 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 "$" command. Usage:
LOAD "$"
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