/PiRTOII

New PiRTO multicart for Intellivision, now based on Pico clone

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PiRTO II

Intellivision flash multicart based on Pico clone

PiRTO II is the new version of my PiRTO multicart DIY yourself based on cheap "purple" Raspberry Pi Pico clone.

WARNING! "purple" Pico has not the same pinout of original Raspberry "green" ones, you MUST use the clone or you may damage your hardware.

NOTE FAT FS used for flash file management is quite simple, you can't use FILENAME LONGER THAN 32 BYTES INCLUDED SUFFIX!!!!! PLEASE RENAME YOUR BIN FILES OR THE GAMES WON'T START AT ALL!!!

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Kicad project and gerbers files for the pcb are in the PCB folder, you need only a diode and a push buttons for resetting the cart if needed or want restart. Add you pico clone, and flash the firmware ".uf2" in the Pico by connecting it while pressing button on Pico and drop it in the opened windows on PC. After flashed with firmware, and every time you have to change your ROMS repository, you can simply connect the Pico to PC and drag&drop "BIN" files into.

More info on AtariAge forum: https://forums.atariage.com/

Even if the diode should protect your console, DO NOT CONNECT PICO WHILE INSERTED IN A POWERED ON CONSOLE!

Credits

Thank to Robin Robin Edwards and his A8PicoCart (https://github.com/robinhedwards/A8PicoCart), i found very smart his way to manage the Flash RAM and the USB updates, so i admit i took large parte of his code for it!.

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