Tag: ZX Spectrum Clones
Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which in Brazil were represented by the Gradiente Expert and the Sharp HotBit. With that in mind, I started my research, trying to find a…
I was expecting that the Next would be a hot topic over Kickstarter and it would be funded, but I didn’t expect that to happen so quick. The project is fully funded already, which means they will get the money from all backers via Kickstarter. Since there are still 28 days to go, there are plenty of time to go way…
If you are not following the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group you will love to know that the ZX Spectrum Next development is reaching important milestones. The developers have received another prototype of the machine which shows a PCB that will be probably very close to the one offered as the final product. It features several interfaces that will make any…
Fuse, a free and open source Speccy emulator for Windows, Linux and OSX, just got updated to version 1.2. Here is the announcement: “After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/…
Times are magnificent for retro computing nostalgia! After the ZX Spectrum VEGA, VEGA+ and THE64, now we were presented with the ‘Spectrum Next’. Spectrum Next was unveiled last Saturday at the Play Expo Blackpool in UK with a huge reception. The gorgeous new machine is still being presented as a rendered 3D model for now, and it is preparing to debut a crowdfunding…
This is the follow up of Sergey’s blog post where he writes about the details of building a ZX Spectrum clone using a Harlequin board. Follow the link below for more details. Link: Sergey’s Blog
ZX-UNO is an FPGA-based ZX Spectrum clone project that just finished its crowdfunding campaign on Verkami. Due to its success the campaign ended earlier, surpassing the 16,000 euros goal. The interesting aspect of the project is that it is open not only clone a ZX Spectrum. The board is a complete development platform that due to the nature of the FPGA,…
This compo is really interesting. While most compos would not allow anything other than standard machines, ZX Enhanced takes the opposite approach. Only ZX Spectrum compatible machines that have some enhancement can participate. The compo rules state that “target platforms must be equipped with various extensions like graphic modes other than ‘6912’, RAM above 128kB, CPU clock frequency above 3.5MHz…
