{"id":105441,"date":"2026-01-05T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=2b0e65adbe4de6909b949f86646cef20"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:29:32","slug":"picopcmcia-leverages-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-to-emulate-a-pcmcia-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105441","title":{"rendered":"PicoPCMCIA leverages the Raspberry Pi RP2350 to emulate a PCMCIA card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2026\/01\/05\/picopcmcia-leverages-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-to-emulate-a-pcmcia-card\/\">adafruit industries blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh man, that's _delightful_ for playing with old laptops.\nModern Wifi, storage emulation including CD drives, all the things that are usually a hassle.<\/div><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4.png 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-240x300.png 240w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-385x480.png 385w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-120x150.png 120w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-350x437.png 350w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4.png 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-240x300.png 240w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-385x480.png 385w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-120x150.png 120w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1-4-350x437.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>yyzkevin is launching an open source project to make a multifunction <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PCMCIA\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PCMCIA<\/a> (later named PC) card for vintage computers. Details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a Type II, 5V, 16-bit PC Card designed for use in compliant PCMCIA sockets and should work in most devices.<\/li>\n<li>Built around the&nbsp;<strong>RP2350<\/strong>&nbsp;and leveraging the ISA-like nature of the PCMCIA bus, this project benefits greatly from&nbsp;code interchangeability with other RP-based retro projects, most notably&nbsp;<strong>PicoGUS<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>PicoMEM<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The card has an onboard wireless module containing the Infineon CYW43439, same as found on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. This allows the card to attach to modern Wi-Fi networks (2.4GHz 802.11b\/g\/n WPA2). It can then emulate an NE2000 adapter and\/or a dialup modem.<\/li>\n<li>The card has an included Texas Instruments TLV320AIC3254 which calls itself a &ldquo;Very Low-Power Stereo Audio CODEC with programmable miniDSP&rdquo;.<\/li>\n<li>Emulation of intelligent mode MPU-401 is possible thanks to implementation done by PicoGUS base on SoftMPU\/HardMPU.<\/li>\n<li>Sound Blaster emulation and the worlds first PCMCIA Gravis Ultrasound<\/li>\n<li>Emulated Panasonic MKE CD-ROM<\/li>\n<li>Storage Emulation<\/li>\n<li>The USB port for the RP2354 is made available on the external connector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e-04EoGlayY\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> below and more in the post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yyzkevin.com\/picopcmcia\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yyzkevin is launching an open source project to make a multifunction PCMCIA (later named PC) card f&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}