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[[Rodrik Studio ]] announced its PicoCPC expansion card, which was created with the help of [[FreddyV ]] (the author of the [https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/ISA-PicoMEM PicoMEM ISA card for IBM PC]).

[[File:PicoCPC v0proto2.1jpeg|600px]] [[File:Modular PicoCPC.jpg|600px]]

The PicoCPC is clocked at 375Mhzuse a Pico2, connected via multiplexor. This let enough pin to add an I2S DAC, MicroSD and some more control signals. Final PicoCPC will be with soldered RP2350B. The board can decode any I/O port and of course RAM/ROM cycles. As it use a Pico2, its RAM is doubled vs Pico1 and it can access a 8MB PSRAM as well. Advantage of this model is on use of CH376 for USB : USB in FAT32&extfs, with nothing to do at the CPC side. There is no external ROM, so the microntroller access the emulated RAM/ROM and USB/MicroSD at the same time: Direct write from the uSD to the CPC emulated RAM at 3MB/s (For example). The PicoCPC is clocked at 366Mhz. So it is not as powerful as the [[RSF3]] clocked at 480Mhz. But it is more powerful than the [[M4 Board]] clocked at 168Mhz. [https://www.spinpoint.org/2015/10/23/cortex-m4-board/ Source] <br>

Currently, the features of the PicoCPC areIt now has :

* ROM Emulation *RAM Emulation (allows transforming a 464/664 into a 6128)* RAM, all modes, except C3 mode for now* Keyboard key remapping to English, French, Spanish* Floppy disk controller emulation, supporting .DSK and even most of the copy protected games. (works only on 464 )*Create Floppy "pack" and 464+swap between them with a button*Navigate in the SD and run games from it*Setup program helping to do the initial config if there is no config file on the SD (With graphics and music)* Emulation of Various commands, to list and load the [[TMPI speech synthesizer]]ROM and Disk images

This card uses the Raspberry Pico 2, so it’s conceivable that new features could be added C3 mode to arrive in the futurenext hardware release. And much more for the final hardware release: vocal synthesizer, cpr cartridges, usb, wifi, nfc, ...

In the description of the 07/03/2025 video, it is written[[File:Pimoroni Picocpc.jpg|600px]]

La ROM Wizard est une ROM écrite entièrement en assembleur et bas niveau"It’s still far from being finished, sans l'utilisation de vecteurs car elle remplace l'OS de la machine. C'est pour le moment 25ko de code sans les data des écrans et de la musique. Les données étant stockées dans la ROM du Pico et récupérées quand nécessaire. En outre, j'ai du écrire les fonctions de tracé de pixels, de tracé de caractères, de string et embarquer ma propre fonte. J'ai du écrire mon propre lecteur de musique..but it’s progressing well."

À l'heure actuelle*Loading and unloading ROMs from BASIC*Copying files between SD and floppy disk*Saving files to SD (for now, je vois Juin comme the Pico can only read and launch)*Formatting floppy disks*Displays on the I2C screen during the Wizard*All the sound part*All the Wi-Fi part*All the NFC part "Prototype 2 will require a major change on the I/O side but should normally open up more possibilities, like the C3 memory mode on 464/664, switching to 512KB of extended memory, and sound." "At the moment, I’m aiming for June as a tentativedate. Même si le Even if the code ne sera pas finiisn’t finished, le the hardware devrait l'être. La carte finale sera une 4 couches et avec une complexité s'approchant plus d'une carte mère de PC portable que d'un A4000 pour donner un ordre d'idée. C'est en partie parce que je veux garder la carte petite, elle fait 75x60mmshould be."

* "les fonctions vont évoluerWhen it works on all CPCs, je l'ai écrit en description. Le prochain gros truc sera le sonincluding the Plus models, synthétiseur vocaland the hardware is more or less final, mais aussi un I’m aiming for June." "The features will evolve; I wrote that in the description. The next big thing will be sound—voice synthesizer—but also a second AY et peut-être d'autres choses tordues comme chip and maybe some other quirky stuff like Adlib. Puis le wifi et le nfcThen Wi-Fi and NFC."* "Je compte mettre le wifi si I plan to add Wi-Fi later if possible plus tard et aussi L’USB, plus simple que la and also USB, which is simpler than micro SD pour transférer des chosesfor transferring things."* "je peux même dire qu'il est fort possible que les cartouches plus soit émulée bientôtI can even say it’s very likely that Plus cartridges will be emulated soon."* "Le wifi est prévu à plus long terme, le Wi-Fi is planned for the longer term; the separate Wi-Fi module wifi séparé pour pico2 n'étant pas encore disponiblefor Pico2 isn’t available yet."* "Il y a trop de cartesThere are too many boards, souvent trop cheroften too expensive, introuvables et avec des fonctions différenteshard to find, and with different features. Dans l'idée la picocpc devrait coûter la moitié du prix d'un ddi5The idea is that the PicoCPC should cost half the price of a DDI5."* "Il y aura une boite autour, pour en faire un périphérique ressemblant à ceux d'époqueThere will be a case around it to make it look like a peripheral from back in the day."* "La partie The HDD est pas toppart isn’t great; binaries that load other binaries won’t work. In the end, les binaires chargeant des binaires ne fonctionneront pas. Je n'ai pu mettre que peu de jeux dessus au finalI could only put a few games on it." [[File:PicoCPC RSX info.jpg|600px]] <br>

* [https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/picocpc/ Thread Topic on CPCwiki forum] <br>