Retro computing has a hardware problem. Physical cdrom and hard drives wear out and die every year – with no replacements on the horizon as most manufacturers have quit making them decades ago.

Enter PicoIDE from the creator of the retro sound card PicoGUS (emulates Gravis UltraSound, Sound Blaster 16 (OPL3) / Sound Blaster Pro 2 (OPL3) / AdLib (OPL2), CMS/Game Blaster and Tandy 3-Voice, and supports MIDI output with MPU-401 intelligent mode emulation). PicoIDE is an IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro PC’s. It lets you load and run hard drive images as well as perfectly emulates CDROM drives with full redbook audio support. You run them all from a microSD card you load with images. It doesn’t get much easier than that.

• Emulates ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE fixed hard drives
  • Images stored on microSD card
  • .bin/.cue or .iso image support for CD-ROM
  • .img/.hda/.vhd/.hdf for HDD, supporting LBA or CHS
• Built-in CD audio analog output on 3.5mm jack and MPC-2 header, driven by TI PCM5100A DAC
• Supports PIO modes 0-4 and multi-word DMA modes 0-2
• Headers for SPI peripheral, external drive activity LED and action button

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