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" It’s still far from being finished, but it’s progressing well." " What’s still missing:" *Loading and unloading ROMs from BASIC *Copying files between SD and floppy disk *Saving files to SD (for now, 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 tentative date. Even if the code isn’t finished, the hardware should be."

*"When it works on all CPCs, including the Plus models, and the hardware is more or less final, 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 chip and maybe some other quirky stuff like Adlib. Then Wi-Fi and NFC." *"I plan to add Wi-Fi later if possible, and also USB, which is simpler than micro SD for transferring things." *"I can even say it’s very likely that Plus cartridges will be emulated soon." *"Wi-Fi is planned for the longer term; the separate Wi-Fi module for Pico2 isn’t available yet." *"There are too many boards, often too expensive, hard to find, and with different features. The idea is that the PicoCPC should cost half the price of a DDI5." *"I didn't check the price of DDI-5, but this one will be around 70€." *"I will have a distributor in UK, so no problem." *"When the board is ready, I will open-source both ROMs, the PicoCPC and the Wizard." *"It’s coming along, but it’ll take a few more months. The final board will be pretty high-tech with 4 layers, etc., and some surprises like connectivity features." *"There will be a case around it to make it look like a peripheral from back in the day." *"The HDD part isn’t great; binaries that load other binaries won’t work. In the end, I could only put a few games on it."