ZX Spectrum Next: a quick look at the board in action

[@qwe098qwe098qwe098]

Wow, that all looks and sounds incredible! Congratulations on creating this.

[@garyproffitt669]

Brilliant work, cant wait for the production model.

[@MacSociety]

I am super excited, like a little kid (I am in my 50s now) about the Spectrum Next. I missed the kickstarter but hoping before 2019 is over a 2nd kickstarter is done OR these come for sale outside of kickstarter. I very much want to buy one and learn to program with. Will be fun. I have been joining all the Facebook groups and forums and asking lots of questions as I am brand new to Sinclair systems. Last time I used one was at a friends house in the early 80s, a ZX80. Never owned one but will this year... and hopefully I can buy a Next!

[@stevesm2010]

Awesome stuff. Very impressed with the board layout and expansion facilities.

[@Blerkotron]

Really impressive stuff, Henrique - everything looking spot-on compatibility-wise and the board itself is incredibly tidy. Very much looking forward to seeing it housed in the final keyboard!

[@DJFuZionDnB]

Genuinely excited for this. You have an immediate backer here.

[@MAKEMEA]

It's nice to know how its even gone beyond that V1 board now, it just keeps going from strength to strength.

[@wobblyrampack9655]

Jupiter Ace mode? You just sold it to me (and I'm not kidding! :) Really, really good engineering. Best of luck!

[@BertGrink]

Will this thing ever see the light of day for anyone else than the original backers?

[@miikasuominen3845]

That's looking fantastic! I will so be backing this up, also I love the housing design renders. The design, for me, is just spot on. Waiting for the Kickstarter and the final product;)

[@stalepalemale]

This looks awesome guys some really great work, can't wait for it!

[@mikedench1110]

I'm in love! I have never wanted a computer so much since the original Amiga 1000. I sincerely hope this will be my next and last computer purchase. I do want Rick's spiffy enclosure though, not a cobbled up one even though the rubber keyed 48k I was very fond of. Fantastic job guys.

[@angrybeavers3952]

I am SO backing this when it is on Kickstarter. This is awesome and - without naming names - it is good to have the Sinclair brand reclaimed by people who actually give a toss.

[@Tom-Cat]

What about the "promised" Long File Names inside ESXDOS ? :)

[@wallyweek]

I'm totally amazed! Great job, compatibility looks perfect and the board is so clean. Is there any preview of the final housing?

[@henriqueolifiers6400]

Not yet, that work starts after the Kickstarter. ;)

[@pcsocket462ecsviak7vza]

try pyjamarama for Wally week housing!

[@zoxwolf2133]

Beautiful board layout. So are these will be available as boards only coz i want to fit one in Retroradionics new ZX case? Cheers

[@Z80Man]

Ahhh, at least they thought about gold plating the extension connector. How much had I suffered from the original tinned one oxydization... :( I had ended up thickening the contacts with solder so the Interface 1 and MGT+D connectors were so tight they would stop crashing the Spectrum every time someone was sneezing in the area !

[@realgroovy24]

Very nice! But did you modify the original case like that?

[@nigelambler530]

Will get this when it comes out,or back it if it goes that way. Takes me back wow. Whoul be cool if they could ship it with the spectrum vision of BASIC...

[@speccyrook]

Cool! Is a Pentagon timings support planed?

[@andyfarmer701]

Hi i was just wondering from order of the fully cased spectrum next what is the delivery time

[@CasualCommodore]

Really looking forward to this. Looks like you guys are doing a fantastic job! :) Concern..: What about keyboard layouts? I ask because there is a danish text adventure ("Skabet"), which needs the 3 special danish letters Æ, Ø and Å as text input..

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

Is there also a full screen mode in a correct apsect ratio 4:3 mode?

[@manuelgallardourbano]

Hello, im from spain and want to buy one, how can i do it. Many thanks.

[@germainromero1724]

Hola, me ocurre lo mismo. No sé donde conseguir uno. Soy Hyper fan de Sinclair.

[@Synthematix]

Will these work with multiplayer online games then?

[@racheldiscadfael4147]

Personally, I would stick the classic bus on a separate PCB, linked by a plug and ribbon. Make it replaceable due to wear and tear. I remember edge connector ribbon cables being a popular 3rd party add on for this very reason when I was a spotty 14 year old.

[@reginachen1861]

can you make it pink?

[@whitepaperkat67]

Is it possible to connect a modem to that

[@DJFuZionDnB]

Looks great. Thanks for the demo 😊

[@gavspants]

could the power connection be revised to a micro USB power socket?

[@MashaRBX1]

Yep.

[@pcsocket462ecsviak7vza]

hdmi?

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice video, thanks for sharing :)

[@drkamilz]

Awesome, just awesome!

[@garrettimus]

Can't wait!

[@johntrevy1]

What CPU is driving this?? Obviously it's not a Z80. My guess is a 1GHZ ARM7?

[@TheBroz]

johntrevy1 Spartan-6 XC6SLX16 FPGA

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Still no power switch? ;) JW3HH

[@AlexeyMelnikovSB]

The timing demo of ULA48 (and also ULA128 and Pentagon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKm5eoGOpdNprrc is writtem by my friend and perfectly works on my ZX core on MiST and MiSTer something like 3 years already.

[@1337Shockwav3]

WiFi right next to the analog outputs? Oh well.

[@back2skooldaze]

AMAZING ;))))

[@MacSociety]

btw, I subscribed to your channel.

[@dumiicris2694]

why? u do have free time lots and lots

[@Motocicleiros]

What about an USB? LoL.

[@George-iv1hi]

I don't see the reason for this computer - original spectrum is cheaper. From historical point of view the new features are not found in original spectrum, new computer do it much better.

[@mrLumen2]

USB r.i.p :(

[@Putin-Lox]

LOX

[@timofonic]

PS/2 and no at least two or three USB ports? Sorry, but this is a fail. I would put four USB ports at least, so able to put: keyboards, mouse, usb pendrive or hdd, ethernet, etc What's the difference with ZX-UNO, the core in MiST FPGA board and zx-evo? github.com/tslabs/zx-evo

[@ErikDvorak]

At least 4 USBs ports on Speccy?! I'm sure you are just kidding... Simplicity is name of the game here, not trying to be something that it isn't to begin with. The less holes that beautiful case has, the better.

[@timofonic]

USB makes everything simpler: Instead different ports for certain kind of hardware, the same interface could be used for a wide variety of hardware to be connected to it. It makes it more simple and efficient. If you want to connect PS/2 or serial devices (for example), you could use an adapter. The same could be used for interfaces like audio input if a powerful USB implementation could be done too. Without this integration and sophistication, I consider reconfigurable computers are lacking the good part of software emulation and still showing the bad one of legacy hardware.

[@adamsfusion]

Because when it comes to an FPGA, it's way easier to interface with a PS/2 keyboard (parallel directly onto the chip) vs USB (serial negotiation + HID translations). Sure, you could totally use a pen drive... sometimes... when you got one that interfaced right and didn't use some special method of revealing itself to the device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@andre93131]

#VAIBRASILIAM

[@alexke3273]

акцент канеш..

[@eXzmos]

Сейчас меня фанаты закидают камнями, но я один из них, а именно я люблю данный вид спектрума и тащусь от такого рода железа, но... Это сраный эмулятор и если так то тогда уже легче поставить тоже самое на Raspberry PI и наслаждаться те же самым, так как там тоже можно прикрутить всякую совет из созданного на FPGA. От реального спектрума осталось только внешний вид, остальное симуляция всего!!! Я бы не когда не взял такое, если уж и придет конец то так тому и быть но идти в будущее с таким спектрумом уж простите не надо! Для меня лично это просто забава на полочку и не затикие деньги! Это мое мнение, я только выразил свою точку, так как если рассуждать как вы, то можно провернуть так с любым аппаратом но не получить то что было и ради чего все это создавалось. Сэр Синклер был прав!!! Вы выбрали не того, и перешли на сторону дьявола но обратно ничего не вернуть , все потеряно!