Spectrum Next KS2 - A Worthy Successor to the ZX Spectrum

Phil and Adrian return to talk us through the Spectrum Next, it's features, design, impressive compatibility and ports.
00:06 Intro
03:47 Power on
06:32 Ghostbusters
14:05 Enduro Racer
15:42 Elite
18:50 Xeno
19:52 Robocop
21:39 Bikers
24:50 Bomb Jack
25:58 Aliens
29:37 Cassette Fail
33:27 Invasion Force
40:30 Conclusion

[@alexandermirdzveli3200]

It's always a pleasure to spend some time in company of Phil and Adrian!

[@matthewgreen6793]

Would love to see something on the Acorn Archimedes. I had an Acorn 3010 just after Commodore went bust. The shop advised to buy one of these in place of the 1200. It was the first ARM computer (I think) had a great keyboard, and some of the games were great. Star Fighter 3000 showed the potential of the machine, along with some Amiga ports. I think the developer for Star Fighter was interviewed on the channel at some point.

[@Dogbreath1974]

The dynamic between you two is brilliant, the Clarkson and May of the 8bit era

[@hazy33]

Great video! Lovely to see you guys going through the options like normal people would do. Cobra was a good game based on the Stallone film. Didn't have much to do with the film though.

[@lukaswest5545]

Makes me want to go watch Ghostbusters (the first one) and Robocop again

[@jaycee1980]

I remember being very disappointed with Ghostbusters when I bought it as a kid! Pentagon is a Russian ZX spectrum clone, where they enhanced the hardware quite a bit. Usually you'll only need this for some demos.

[@electronash]

Not you again. lol Allo, mate.

[@jaycee1980]

@@electronash lol yeah I get everywhere dont i :)

[@zx_spectrum_next]

When can we use a quad core pi zero as the accelerator what about an art package and what about the pi zero emulating the vdp9990 at least?

[@b213videoz]

Can you attach a physical floppy disk drive to it ?

[@Eratosthenes0815]

If you want to, you can connect original hardware like floppy interfaces, or even the Interface 1 + Micro Drives to the expansion port. It's a bit fiddly and runs with restrictions as you have to disable features of the Spectrum Next to run the original hardware. Not sure if all existing interfaces are supported "out of the box" especially when they are powered via the expansion port. As mentioned, this may be fiddly. But it's fun to make it run... If you just want to access data you can mount disk images with NextZXOS or even access the whole file system of the SD Card using ".-commands" or NextBASIC or an API. Depends on what you want to do with the system. - This is much more comfortable "nowadays" and my way accessing data today... ;-) P.S. (edit): Loading data from .tap files, .z80, tzx, ... and even disk images can be handled using the browser as shown in the video. Read- and write access is possible in most of the cases.

[@zxspectrum16KB]

If you like elite try elite legend think it needs trdos though

[@Eratosthenes0815]

NextZXOS supports mounting disk images directly from the SD Card. - Try is to add a disk image containing the game to the SD card...

[@zxspectrum16KB]

@@Eratosthenes0815 trik?

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

Do not plug power into the Raspberry Pi USB port. In fact, don't plug anything into those USB port. They can't be used as of now because there's nothing on the NEXT PI making use of that.

[@Eratosthenes0815]

This depends and isn't quiet right. Correct is, that you should avoid to power the Pi Zero via USB 1 when the computer is switched on. This may grill the voltage regulator on the board. What you can do is to use the 2nd USB port and the mini HDMI of the PI Zero. The only problem you may run into is, that the PSU doesn't support "too many" USB devices and often refuses to mount the devices as it can't provide the power. I'm using an active USB Hub and I'm able to run the Pi Zero without any issues. You can do many funny things with the Pi using the terminal program that is shipped with the Next distribution. I'm running the Next as a Host for other computers being connected via USB-RS232 and doing funny things.