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matherp
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Posted: 12:23pm 04 Aug 2026

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V6.03.01 is now available at https://github.com/UKTailwind/PicoMite/releases/latest

New in this release

WEB PING (WebMite and HDMIWEB) — WEB PING address$ [, count] [, timeout] [, avgvar] sends ICMP echo requests to a hostname or IP address, prints a line per reply plus a summary, and can return the average round-trip time in ms (-1 if there were no replies) in a floating point variable.

OV5640 camera support (RP2350) — CAMERA OPEN OV5640 gives a 320x240 RGB565 preview, motion detection (CAMERA CHANGE) and JPEG capture (CAMERA CAPTURE JPEG) at VGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA, QXGA and 5MP with HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW quality. White balance is frozen at the preview's converged setting so stills match the preview, and the pixel clock adapts to the CPU speed (378/315/252MHz).

Camera capture without a display — CAMERA OPEN no longer requires a panel: CAMERA CAPTURE JPEG and CAMERA CHANGE work headless, and the simple CAMERA CAPTURE now accepts any display with at least RGB565 colour (including SSD1963 types).

TURTLE colour commands accept the COLOR spelling — PEN COLOUR, PEN COLOR, PENCOLOUR, PENCOLOR and PC are all equivalent; likewise for FILL COLOUR and CURSOR COLOUR.

USB mice are decoded from their own HID report descriptor — with OPTION MOUSE SENSITIVITY set, mice with non-standard report layouts (extra buttons, padding, report IDs, wider movement fields) now work; the firmware falls back to the standard boot report if the mouse declares no usable movement.

PICO COMPUTER 3 is detected and configured automatically at boot (RP2350).

Fixes

CIRCLE with an aspect greater than 1 and a line width of 1 no longer leaves gaps in the outline.

A mouse click or screen tap in the full screen editor now lands on the right character on lines that have scrolled horizontally.

A misconfigured or disconnected camera reports an error naming the stalled signal instead of freezing; camera capture no longer disturbs the PSRAM/flash controller (fixes rare hard faults on PSRAM builds); faster capture loops.

Bluetooth console and keyboard fixes.

Corrected the embedded pin-status program for the WEB builds and the OLIMEXUSB platform string; keyboard map updates.

Documentation

The user manual is updated for all of the above (including a Pico Computer 3 section and the reworked camera and mouse entries) and is attached as PicoMite_User_ManualV6.03.01.pdf, with per-command outline bookmarks.

Binaries

Pre-built .uf2 images for all supported RP2040 and RP2350 variants are available on github. Flash the file matching your board and configuration.
Edited 2026-08-04 22:25 by matherp

PilotPirx

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Posted: 02:00pm 04 Aug 2026

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I had understood that V6.03.00 was the last official version of MMBasic. However, this version appears to include not only bug fixes but also new features.
What does the future hold for MMBasic?

Mixtel90

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Posted: 02:09pm 04 Aug 2026

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They are all "the final version" until the next beta release. :)

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PhenixRising
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Posted: 02:23pm 04 Aug 2026

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To paraphrase matherp: Time to start making stuff

I was reading on a forum, regarding FX pedals for guitar; they have an amazing device (£1000+) that does everything except play the guitar. Firmware updates have ceased and so now they want to buy a newer model where the FW is still being debugged

Edited 2026-08-05 00:24 by PhenixRising

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