Would love to see something on the Acorn Archimedes. I had an Acorn 3010 just after Commodore went bust. The shop advised to buy one of these in place of the 1200. It was the first ARM computer (I think) had a great keyboard, and some of the games were great. Star Fighter 3000 showed the potential of the machine, along with some Amiga ports. I think the developer for Star Fighter was interviewed on the channel at some point.
I remember being very disappointed with Ghostbusters when I bought it as a kid! Pentagon is a Russian ZX spectrum clone, where they enhanced the hardware quite a bit. Usually you'll only need this for some demos.
Do not plug power into the Raspberry Pi USB port. In fact, don't plug anything into those USB port. They can't be used as of now because there's nothing on the NEXT PI making use of that.
This depends and isn't quiet right. Correct is, that you should avoid to power the Pi Zero via USB 1 when the computer is switched on. This may grill the voltage regulator on the board. What you can do is to use the 2nd USB port and the mini HDMI of the PI Zero. The only problem you may run into is, that the PSU doesn't support "too many" USB devices and often refuses to mount the devices as it can't provide the power. I'm using an active USB Hub and I'm able to run the Pi Zero without any issues. You can do many funny things with the Pi using the terminal program that is shipped with the Next distribution. I'm running the Next as a Host for other computers being connected via USB-RS232 and doing funny things.
Great video! Lovely to see you guys going through the options like normal people would do. Cobra was a good game based on the Stallone film. Didn't have much to do with the film though.
If you want to, you can connect original hardware like floppy interfaces, or even the Interface 1 + Micro Drives to the expansion port. It's a bit fiddly and runs with restrictions as you have to disable features of the Spectrum Next to run the original hardware. Not sure if all existing interfaces are supported "out of the box" especially when they are powered via the expansion port. As mentioned, this may be fiddly. But it's fun to make it run... If you just want to access data you can mount disk images with NextZXOS or even access the whole file system of the SD Card using ".-commands" or NextBASIC or an API. Depends on what you want to do with the system. - This is much more comfortable "nowadays" and my way accessing data today... ;-) P.S. (edit): Loading data from .tap files, .z80, tzx, ... and even disk images can be handled using the browser as shown in the video. Read- and write access is possible in most of the cases.
