New ZX Spectrum Next PLUS ! & A tape that doesn't exist ?! 

I'd love to get a Spectrum Next, because I always wanted a ZX Spectrum, but being in the U.S., they were few and far between

I’d absolutely love to get a next.. such a rocky progress for them, but looks brilliant and a fantastic video once again!

I'm hoping to pick one up on the next production run. I still have 2 original 48k spectrums and a 128k+3 :)

I’m wondering if anyone from Ultimate ever got back to you.

a quickie.. you know those coloured strips at the right hand side, do they light up? if not.. that would be a cool mod.. *wink wink*

True!

I almost started with a ZX81 (or ZX80, I forget), but opted for a C128 a couple years later. I, too, ended up working with computers for a living. Yeah, that was the golden age of 8-bit.

The exact path I went down too. My ZX81 was paid for by a pong machine which had to go back due to not working, the ZX81 was sold and helped pay for my 48k Spectrum.

I went out got a ZX81. I had no idea what to do with it. Realized how bad it was compared to an Atari 2600 to look at. I also realized that it was better as you could write your own programs. When you see some of the later Spectrum games. The programmers could make the 48k macine work miracles

The same for me. A 48K Spectrum was my first computer and Horace Goes Skiing was my first game on it. I am also 50 now and those times spent programming and playing games on my Speccy are some of my fondest memories.

Certainly far more satisfying than listening to someone talking about. Did I mention he sounds like a magician? No he really does! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QPXvAM9blow.html

@@richardcb6076 ahahahahahhaha

...without "Tape loading error" message :)

The Next does run a CPC 6128 core if you're feeling a little nostalgic about both :)

Psion actually produced a lot of early software for the Spectrum, and many of their organisers were based around the same CPU as the Spectrum. It even played host to a Horace game, IIRC.

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Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️ Now sleep...

... he says at 1:00 in the morning. ... HE says at 1:50 in the morning....

@@RetroRecipes would it be possible to with an expansion Port accessory either or through the USB on the Raspberry Pi zero preferably the expansion port. Rs232 serial or others. AK actual cereal not USB if not possible you could always do that through the USB but just wondering. A parallel port same as above. Because the armhole sound chips and all that chiptunes will definitely be a possibility. Which leads me to the next question. How about midi through the expression for or if that would work the USB port on the Raspberry Pi zero expansion? I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought about this at one point or in the future. Please anyone comment thanks.

@@RetroRecipes hey me again. Nas the question on the Spectrum system.. I'm not seeing too many of your videos but I want for more because I am into Retro computers but I just recently discovered your channels content. I am curious about something in the video. I have feelings probably some sort of computer-generated thing? On the one side of the screen when you're showing the pseudo video capture AKA direct camera feed from the monitor. That sword a Game Boy thingy. I take it that was computer generated right? If not what is going on there? But theoretically you could actually make something sort of like that. Got a pocket television. Then build and or 3D prints. Also the buttons of the front could be functional. Ameri fact it sort of reminds me of BMO from Adventure Time for for some reason. I have a feeling that I got the name spelled wrong but I don't know. Also using Google speech recognition for this LOL. Surprisingly did pretty good. Oftentimes goes either way or both. Usually use a combination of dragon and Google for most tasks. Since I cannot touch type on PC. However I found with the Android keyboard I'm able to do it so much better. Occasionally I use my Android as a wireless keyboard and mouse. Eventually will use a PlayStation 3 or something or other controller as a mouse. And of course all buttons map to different functions. So true browser VLC you name it. On-screen keyboard on off Etc. I'm able to use steri keyboard it's just have never been able to touch type. Carpal tunnel both wrists. And wound up having to get a grant originally for the original Dragon dictate. At that time is basically the price of the beefed-up computer. That was a primary reason for that computer. Was using 16 megabytes of RAM instead of eight by the way this was Windows machine. Quarter 2nd pause between words. One of the most precious things on the hard drive was your voice files. You literally almost had a tranny entire dictionary individual words. You're talking about months of training just to be able to do basic dictation. For anyone out there that was not wear that. This was a boon to me not having to take dictation for school work etc. most of the time before head Reagan it was my folks taking dictation for me. Also in school years ago in grade school and later I went off times would actually use one of the secretaries at school to take dictation. Even occasionally if I was at church where my dad work in the secretary was available when I needed to do something like that. the Church secretary would take dictation for me. Then Along Came Dragon dictate. by the way that was the original version. I'm looking into doing coding. also I'm looking into typing expander as well. Is there a decent Linux voice recognition program. I was thinking about possibly doing coding by voice recognition. And just dictating lines of code. and also some sort of voice macros would work great For certain things? Or something like that the debt could be variable ad such hard to describe what that would be. Comments appreciated.

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 eh..?

www.specnext.com/product/zx-spectrum-next-computer/ Dimensions 50 x 30 x 30 cm One of those measurements is NOT right!!

Frazer, I was going to use a banana 🍌

@@RetroRecipes lewd

Size isn't important, apparently.

Ha yeah, I was amazed that worked honestly. 🤷‍♂️

As i recall, Adrian had a very unfortunate experience with his Speccy that he brought home from his visit to the UK :(

Thanks and welcome

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️ I'm glad the sincere love of nostalgia comes across. ❤️

Thank you for your kind words Retro Betro! Means a lot 👍🕹️

Christopher Hope Yeh and then spending three days trying to fix it because there was a typo in the listing.

We had the magazine INPUT, it came out every month. I'd spend hours typing in the programs to have some really dodgy results, most of the time it was nothing like it was shown in the pictures. Great times though.

I still remember a breakout bat/ball game on the zx80 that was my first ever intro to programming and computers and is responsible for my now over 25 years in IT. I had to type it in every time i wanted to play it. Man. That is how you learnt to code!! 😁👍 Of course it took longer to type/check and fix than it would hold your attention for as a game but I would so love to type in that same code again just once more now 40 years on. That program taught me enough to begin writing my own space invaders clone. Such great memories.

Our first computer was the spectrum 16k. My mum and dad spent ages writing a little program to show us on Christmas day when we went downstairs to open our presents. I remember using the 48k as a word processor, we bought the printer and my dad said it looked like a toilet roll dispenser 😃

@@gower1973 You think any of those typo's were intentional?

I think you mean 1982. Release date: 23 April 1982

@@6581punk yes you are right, was so excited i got the date wrong. 1981 was when i got my zx81

Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹

Thanks Pauline!

Sure thing! I hope it helped! 👍🕹️

Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹

That's my life!

To be an evolution, it should have compatibility with previous models, such as ATM-Turbo 2, Turbo2+, ZX Evo, Pentagon 2.666, and ATM3. There were tons of software, including a web browser.

Thanks Gordon! Glad you liked it. Now get tidying! 😉🕹️

@@RetroRecipes it's tricky as I'm building an arcade cabinet at the moment! A three-quarter sized Galaga standup!

@@cameralabs Nice! You'll enjoy an upcoming video of mine then, of an Atari arcade flavour...

Nice to see you here Gordon 😀

@@gavinstirling7088 I'm never far away! Can't believe I missed the second campaign for the Next either. I need to try harder, although it could be the retro gods telling me to stay with OG hardware.

so many lines, she's at the Betty Ford clinic next week.

You are wrong, Puppyfractic WRITES the script, so Perryfractic and Ladyfractic are the ones hitting THEIR cues and lines.🤣🤣

Wow. Thank you so much! And yeah, I know they are 😉

Thanks for letting me join you :-)

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Nice! This actually has a Timex "personality" so can replicate that too.

@@RetroRecipes I may have to get one of these soon ;)

The USB ports on the Pi might come in handy for that....

@@tomwilson2112 I don't think you can find a 3-inch floppy drive with usb, but this device *_WILL_* let a Next user hook up a 3-inch drive to the Next: www.ebay.com/itm/Controller-FDD-3DOS-for-ZX-Spectrum-2A-2B-Harlequin-128-issue-3G-3H/223844886963

Pish! All the outdated amstrad 3” floppies. We want microdrives !

@@rosssissons5062 Apparently you _CAN_ attach an Interface 1 to the Next: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tuoWzK8ejUM.html (Paul Jenkinson's "The Spectrum Show EP91")

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

Welcome!

one of my favourite songs and albums. i can sing it pretty well these days, but im no moyet

@@ExperimentIV Same. I can sing it too, but I always find my voice trying to drift out of my vocal range. Am more a keyboardist anyway, singing is something I do for fun tho xD

Ben H. im better at singing than i am at any other musical endeavour but i need to practice those more. unfortunately that requires space, and i need to make some if i want to get any further. you dont need much room to sing, though. i only have one demo of my voice on my channel (im getting around to making more demos) but even though i don’t think im that good, at least it’s a reliable voice, haha

LOL! I used that CD when demonstrating a Turbo-CD issue and half the comments were about Yazoo/Yaz - Situation. ;) Love it. Remember the Nintendo commercial that used it?

@@ExperimentIV I just flat out don't practice singing the way I should. Keyboards have come really naturally to me, so that helps a lot xD

You meant 16kb?

@@6581punk yes hehehe

Another Kickstarter is planned, date not announced yet but if you sign up for the mailing list found on the specnext.com website you will find out when it's due to start.

Awesome comment.

Thank you! I'm a very lucky boy 😊

That tape LOADING screen 😢 wish my brother was still alive to see this... Love this episode as well

Special times weren't they? I'm sorry to hear that news. But the most special times were back then, and you had those. Today it's mere reflections and nostalgia 🤎

I thought I was the only one who loved 'Halls'...