Pining for Simpler Days? Pico Micro Mac Turns Your Raspberry Pi Pico 2 into "The Worst Macintosh"
Apple fans reminiscing over a simpler yesterday can now build a working Apple Macintosh with audio and support for up to 464kB of memory — running on a tiny Raspberry Pi Pico 2 or compatible RP2350-based microcontroller development board.
"Pico [Micro] Mac with Audio has been published," pseudonymous vintage computing enthusiast and developer Retro-Theory writes of the emulator, which targets devices built around Raspberry Pi's in-house 32-bit RP2350 microcontroller chip. "[It] includes PWM [Pulse-Width Modulation] or DAC [Digital-to-Analog Converter] based audio [which you can] specify at build time."
Apple's "worst Macintosh," the original 128kB model, can now be squeezed onto a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 — with 464kB of RAM and audio capabilities. (📷: Sailko, CC BY 3.0)
The Pico Micro Mac emulator was originally written by Matt Evans as a way to, in his own words, put "the worst Macintosh in a cheap, portable form factor." That's perhaps a...
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