What happened to Pico?

Hello,

I found this site (phenomenal work, by the way) as we’re having a bit of a retro computing challenge at work, and I wanted to bring to life some old BBC Basic code I wrote many decades ago. My plan was to create a “mini BBC” machine from an old Raspberry Pi in a BBC Micro style 3D printed case, running RiscOS Pico, with my old code running on this.

However… as much as I look around the site and the Internet, I can’t find a working download link. Have you withdrawn this project??? If so, is there any way I can still get a copy of Pico, or am I out of luck now?

Many thanks
Gary Delooze

I haven’t seen any official statements around it, but I know it has issues with newer Pis so I’m not entirely surprised that it’s gone. It’s still available through the Wayback Machine though.

Pico was a one off intended to celebrate the anniversary of BASIC. However you can get any Pi running RISC OS behaving like Pico with something like the following:

*Unplug BootFX
*Configure Language 13
*Configure Mode 7
*Opt 4 0

(Language should be the module number of BASIC; I think it’s 13 but check this…)

That way, it will boot directly into BASIC with the old teletext style display.

Thank you both – very much appreciated, I will try both of those over the weekend