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While the reduced-cost 'early bird' pledges are gone, the project can still be backed with rewards starting at £99 for an uncased motherboard, £175 for a fully-cased version, or £215 for a Plus edition with on-board real-time clock (RTC) and Wi-Fi network module.

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The project's creator, Henrique Olifiers, has pledged to release all hardware, firmware, and software created for the ZX Spectrum Next under a permissive open-source licence, and his call for funding has been a resounding success: since launching late last week, the campaign has shot past its £250,000 goal with £255,205 raised at the time of writing.

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This use of, effectively, hardware rather than software emulation promises full compatibility and none of the glitches associated with its competitors, while the rest of the system has been brought bang up to date too: the 16KB or 48KB of the original ZX Spectrum machines has been upgraded to 512KB expandable to 1.5MB internally and 2.5MB externally, there are RGB, VGA, and HDMI video outputs, an on-board SD Card slot while still supporting external tape decks, three AY-3-8192 audio chips, DB9 joystick and PS/2 mouse support, an on-board Multiface interface, and even the option to insert a Raspberry Pi to use as a fully-addressible co-processor.Īll this hardware comes housed in a full-size case based on the post-Amstrad-acquisition Spectrum models, complete with full-size keyboard, which has been designed by Rick Dickinson - the brain behind several Spectrum models as well as the ill-fated Sinclair QL. Based around a Xilinx Spartan field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the machine features an implementation of the Z80 processor architecture that ran the original machine - but switchable between 3.5MHz and accelerated 7MHz modes.

The ZX Spectrum Next, though, is different.

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Its follow-up, the ZX Spectrum Vega Plus, has fared even worse: a PlayStation Portable inspired design again lacks a full keyboard, while the company behind it is reportedly suffering financial and legal troubles while backers clamour for refunds of the long-delayed device. The first to hit the big time was the ZX Spectrum Vega, a compact device which lacked the keys for full compatibility with all Spectrum software and hit the market at a whopping £100 - almost as much as the ZX Spectrum cost at launch, without correcting for inflation.

To say that previous attempts to relaunch the 8-bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum have been underwhelming is not an understatement.

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Stuff which doesn't fit into any of the above categories.Ī Bluetooth keyboard in the form factor of the SpectrumĪ console-style emulator which plugs into a TV.Ī "fake tape player" which will play back TAP or TZX files as audio for input to real hardware.Yet another attempt to recreate the success of Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum microcomputer has hit the crowdfunding circuit, but this one's a little special: an entirely new machine in a full-size case designed by Rick Dickinson. Reimplementations of the Spectrum in modern hardware designs.įPGA reimplementation of the Spectrum (and other Z80 machines) plus some additional features.įPGA reimplementation of the Spectrum based on ZX-UNO.Ī poweful FPGA-based motherboard for +2A/+2 cases ( MB03-like and more) Intermittently from Sell My Retro, sometimes packaged with a SLAM ULA. Interface with VGA and joystick connection Raspberry Pi Zero based HDMI interface for all ZX Spectrum models, supports ULAPlus. Multi-purpose interface, software compatible to the original ZX Interface 1 We turned our ZX Spectrum Next into a BBC Micro B and BBC Master using BeebFPGA. You can take the FPGA beyond the Z80 with processor cores. FPGA isn’t emulation: the programmable logic blocks create a perfect representation of the Z80 chip. SD Card based interface to run IF1 or other ROM images, and load. The heart of the Spectrum Next is a Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX16 FPGA (field-programmable gate array). Internal MMC/SD/SDHC interface with the +3e system Basically a DivIDE with extra memory and the IDE support replaced by MMC/SD card support.Ī +D, with added Kempston joystick (but no parallel port).

MMC/SD cards and extra memory - can run various firmwares, including ESXDOS. IDE (or typically Compact Flash cards via a CF to IDE adapter) and extra memory - can run various firmwares, including ESXDOS. Things that plug into the the expansion port on original hardware, just like they did in the 1980s.įLASH based interface to run IF1 or other ROM images, and Z80 snapshots.