Spectrum Computing

Sorry just saw the notification for this. The Next already has an enhanced divmmc built in so you shouldn't be attaching one to the expansion bus. The Next divmmc has extended capability and has been made compatible with the internal multiface so they can both operate at the same time. Because of th...

That's fantastic lol.

The only area of weakness I've noticed with my Next is in loading from a real cassette deck. I've got two old tape-recorders, one of which needs a stereo-mono adapter, but the Next seems to want more volume than a classic Spectrum. So I've got them at 100% but the Next seems to want more. I'm assum...

Could I ask @Alcoholics Anonymous, in lay man's terms are you saying that because of the issues in emulating PAL that this is the reason why a handful (and it is a very small number in the scale of things) of programs don't work as expected. No, the video timing in the spectrum next is very accurat...

Still worse than the best Spectrum emulators and the best Uno cores. Really? I don't think so. The Next can run more programs than the uno by simple virtue that the uno doesn't implement as much hardware. The +3, Pentagon 512/1024, dacs, z80 dma, etc. The uno also doesn't attempt to do hardware com...

Can't agree with the last part. That NEC was (a little imperfect) copy on the transistor level, and the Z80 wasn't intended to be 100% backwards compatible with the 8080. Also " instruction emulation" meant "running a software subroutine on a trapped unsupported opcode" ALAIR an...

FPGAs are the future. It's hard to argue with that, but over 300 Quid for a FPGA that is utilizing emulators more than necessary... It just doesn't sit well with me. But hey, that's just an opinion, don't take it for more than it is. The 300 quid cost is due to case, keyboard, manual, power supply,...

it's a FPGA devboard in plastic case :mrgreen: NOT the spectrum's bright future Welcome to the 20th century. I can't even say 21st :D Technological progress is all about integrating more transistors into as small an area as possible. At one point there were only discrete resistors, diodes and trans...

I do believe the whole thing runs from 5V but that might depend on which version of the harlequin you have. Besides the above, another thing to consider is that the 9V is connected directly to the expansion bus. Expansion bus devices can use the 9V. I don't think the harlequin is supplying +-12V on ...

Yes just to add: it is very clear that it is not an emulator. FPGAs are the modern day equivalent of the ULA which can be thought of as half way between MSI parts (like TTL logic) and custom ASIC. The ZX80 was implemented using ttl parts but the ZX81 replaced those ttl parts (about 20 of them) with ...

No, I mean bona fide attempts to reboot the Speccy as a hardware thing in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Anything? Well that example has very little to do with the c64 but is rather an effort to capitalize on the c64 name. Such a thing was just a weak pc with an emulator bundled. There were several at...

Sounds like sega pads work out if the box for the spectrum and the next with multiple button support. If going the md pad route, make sure it's going to work with the particular joystick interface you're using. These things are largely working by accident on traditional spectrums. You can damage so...

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried these joysticks on a Spectrum Next? They should work. The thing to know is that the joystick connector on the spectrum next is a sega connector and not an atari one. The sega connector is compatible with 1- or 2- button atari sticks. The problems can begin if the ...

On my ts2068 connected to a b&w ntsc tv, I found it to be very legible. On colour, less so, and it varied with colour scheme chosen. One of the more popular word processors operated in the hi-res mode in b&w colour scheme and that seemed to work well. Timex put a separate composite output in...

last time i checked "exclusive" meant "not ported to incompatible systems" No it's exactly the right word. It means only playable on the next which is what happens if you use the next's extended architecture. "Exclusive" means "limited to". If you are speakin...

Or to sum up, we are all brothers and no one is to blame, even the one who posted this as bait, erm... the promised stretch goal.. The oliver twins became involved because of the next kickstarter and they were on board for making a game that used the next's features. The stretch goal text was not t...

* After we have released the game there was literally no feedback from Next team as well. I would expect a simple private "thank you for the efforts" to the team but nobody really contacted us, just silence. The honest feedback? I am disappointed. I can't really speak for the others but I...

Anyway, this is the new game from the Sanchez group, isn't it? Let's see what they are up to this year. Yes; I heard the Next version of Mighty Final Fight may be at the fore but it depends on where their interests wander next I think. Hopefully they can get some financial reward from this new mode...

Can I compile code for ts-conf using z88dk? You can target the original zx (48K / 128K) or a generic z80 when compiling code. The generic z80 target can have multiple memory banks (the 128K too -- it defines the 128's BANK 0-7 with the ability to add others) but there is no notion of how the extra ...

Last day for shop availability is Dec 31.

I thought I'd share this one on the forum since a lot of news never makes it off social media. This is another quality title coming off the heels of Dizzy and one being released for the Spectrum 128K, Spectrum Next and PC. The Spectrum 128K version will require esxdos as it is distributed as a TRD d...

It's not right you collected hate from some group of people in exchange for devoting years of your free time to produce a game for free for people to enjoy. It is a top quality game in all respects and is appreciated by most people, Speccy fans and Next fans alike (who are also Speccy fans). I think...

He has said the second version will be available for the community to check before publication which is excellent. I don't underestimate the huge amounts of work that go into good documentation. It was a huge struggle to get that even done on time. A lot of material had to be cut due to size limita...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:12 pm I'm not sure why, but I reformatted the SD card and put a clean image on, and it seems to be working on all modes.

As mentioned on fb, most likely you had an older version of the tzx loader on your sd card. It can happen as these things are still being developed.

The two player game unlocked for the second KS will be a soccer game and is being written by Jim Bagley and Michael Flashware. Jim's written a few soccer games for consoles in his career. I enjoyed Match Day and Match Day 2. I thought soccer games (sorry I was born on the wrong side of Atlantic) wer...