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PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access

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Reply 260 of 264, by Opualuan

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Thanks, unfortunately that adapter wasn’t fully proven and the maker has gone dark… I noticed keyboard support mentioned as a future feature, hopeful it might help!

Reply 261 of 264, by Kekkula

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I'm on the same chase...
Grabbed m24 recently, but I have only the machine no keyboard or monitor.
I'm waiting parts from china to arrive so I can build adapter cable, I think rgbtohdmi has some olivetti modes. I also ordered some 27c64 roms, I think last rom allows you to disable onboard graphics so I could use vga/ega graphics card.
After I can test if the machine is working then I will tackle the keyboard issue... But since I didn't pay much of the computer I'm not going to spend hundreds of Euros to the keyboard 😕

Reply 262 of 264, by NightShadowPT

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Hi!

I recently bought the "PicoMEM - Audio Edition" version from Serdashop, but I seem to be having trouble getting it to work on my Olivetti PC1.

When I use it on one of the ISA slots, it halts the memory test with a "Fail:08:1000:43BC:43BC:43FC", followed by a clear screen, change in resolution and a message "I/O CHECK error on expansion board 00".
If I try it on the other ISA slot, I get the error "Low Memory Fail", even before going into the boot screen.

I have attached photos for reference.

Any idea of what I can do diferently?

Thanks

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Reply 263 of 264, by Transient

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FreddyV wrote on 2025-01-14, 15:49:
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Hi,

Just saw that someone published the news on the latest Firmware.

I also published a new PM2000 Driver. (Wifi network packet driver)

It can now work for machines with a CPU > 80186

The problem was the "fix" I found here (Vogons) for 8bit card.
This fix was working for 8086/8088, but not for machines with 186 or more.

Also mtcp author did a fix in mtcp preventing the Wifi based network card to stop working after a timeout (Without trafic)
This new mTCP and pm2000 should solve some problems then.

I tried the new PM2000 Driver, but it still doesn't work on my system (Pentium 90).
I have updated to the Jan 1 firmware and the Jan 10 mTCP.

Reply 264 of 264, by mbbrutman

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Do you have an existing bug report you can point me at?