ZX2040 for the RP2040

[Turtle_Quality]

Not pretending to know anything about this, just appeared in my feed


https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/th ... -released/

[Waldroid]

Oh wow, I've got a Pimoroni Tufty sitting in a drawer that I never got around to playing with. I'll have to give this a go.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Waldroid]

Dropped the .uf2 file onto the Tufty, and it automagically worked!

Had a quick game of Jetpac. It's a bit tricky using the Tufty's face buttons, since they're a bit of an awkward arrangement and need quite a firm press to actuate. But the game seems to run absolutely fine, as does the 3D viewer demo.

There is a 1-pixel line of "static" - constantly changing random black and white pixels - across the top of the screen, but that doesn't really detract from the experience.

I don't have a piezo speaker handy to test the sound, but it just wiggles a single RP2040 pin in the same manner as a real Spectrum, so it should be a reasonably authentic experience.

What a neat little project!

[Cheez26]

This might be the perfect way to clone the Speccy. Maybe somebody ought to make a kit with this.