Thread 106265037

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0/description

Now includes full commodore 64 and Sinclair QL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HZUmopeNRg [Embed]


Has lisenced CPM, Wifi, Spectrum, commodore, sinclair QL cores, all lisenced ad in ROM, and includes liscenced CP/M wifi, C and basic compiler, assembler IDE, 9 channel sound, usb, vga and hdmi, full spectrum peripheral interface for robotics, SD card reader, can load and save from tape, supports 9 pin joysticks.

Project is already at
€2,512,549
pledged of €289,943 goal
So this is to let you know this exists. It even has an IP stack and a gopher browser for downloading software


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HZUmopeNRg

The 1st and second kiclstarters of these ended up being very expensive on resale so if you wnat one this may be your only chance for years.

Probably the most hard core tech platform you can buy this year
got funded in under 7 minutes
You have a couple of days left if you want one.

There is more to life than linux and microsoft. Some of us are going back to our roots.

Buy an ad fag

>>106265070
I'm not part of the project why would I do that? This is the coolest piece of tech this year. You blink you miss it.

>>106265037 (OP)
>$435 United Station Doll Hairs
lol

>>106265172
Yeah? That's less than a meh GPU?

>>106265172
lol

>>106265172
Gen 2 Spectrum nexts sell for well over 1000 $ used anon (if you can get one). The 3 will double in price as soon as it is released. Watch. If you were a nerd you'd alreday have bought it.

>>106265189
Are you new to tech? These things resell like they are made of solid gold.

>>106265213
>>106265259
Is it a "hard core tech platform" or a nostalgic Funko toy for eBay resellers?

>>106265328
The main reason I want one is the C compiler on it and the spectrum peripheral interface so I can get the fuck of microsoft and linux and have a full IDE to work with 12 volt DC relays and switch registers on the peripheral bus. I also want to write a game for it. Will I play with teh cores for teh spectrum and commodore? Absolutely but if you want to write assembler for the supported cores it has the IDE and toolkid as well as a c compiler.

I also want to play the spectrum next verion of lords of midnight and head over heels (they port games to it)

I've wanted ine ever since I mssed the second kickstarter years ago. Pic related relay controler.

Anyhow, I'm, not a fucking salesman, I though I was doing anons a favor given that time is running out at all the people I know who are into tech want one. Do as you like.
>>106265172

>>106265189
>>$435
if you think that's too much for a system like that you're better not look at prices for desktop components and stick with the lump of wood or whatever the fuck linux potato machine you are posting from

Tempting. Very tempting. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

>>106265488
You're welcome anon.

>>106265037 (OP)
I don't.
Also buy an ad, nobody cares about this overpriced retroomer toy.

>>106265213
>>106265259
>>106265472
A desktop or even a $20 used Thinkpad allows you to do infinitely more work than this chink toy with the computing power of an Arduino and $10 worth of components.
Everybody can see through your samefagging and shilling. Maybe try Reddit? I'm sure they'll love it.

>>106265488
Amstrad CPC core just achived and the team says they ae doing the last two goals no matter what happens

>>106266710
I'm not samefaging you really are iust that sour asshole in the corner. I'm, not part of the team just thrilled I'm getting one as are a lot of people. If you don't know why this is a big deal then just get the fuck off this board, you are not into techology and are just ning for (you)s

>>106265037 (OP)
Hey thanks for the reminder, anon.
Because I am a newgen faggot and I MUST CONSOOOOOOOOOOOM!

>$2,945,903 pledged of $338,686 goal
retrofags are so retarded holy shit

>>106265037 (OP)
This is peak capitalist excess and consumerslop shit. lacan was right when he said desire is the hole in the topology that can't be filled

i want it

>>106265082
Get a real job.

>>106267261>>106267183
>>106267150
>>106267141

You're a unplesent retarded paranoid cunt. People are allowed be excited aout this. If youn don;t give a fuck fine but you're seeing shills where there is just someone into it. Fuck off.

>>106267150
>>$2,945,903 pledged of $338,686 goal
>retrofags are so retarded holy shit
Maybe...they like it?

>>106267278
Someone's upset

>>106267278
>You're a unplesent retarded paranoid cunt.
You are a literal astroturfer. You sell your time to cold sell things online, which is very illegal and really fucking obnoxious. Consider taking a large amount of sleeping pills.

>106267526
>t. Worthless dickhead

If you don't have anything to say about the next or 8 bit computers feel free to suck your own paranoid attention whore asshole in another thread.

>106267526
>You sell your time to cold sell things online, which is very illegal and really fucking obnoxious.
You really think someoen is paying ,e to talk about the zx spectum?
You ridiculoous twat

>>106265037 (OP)
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING BASED
SPECCY CHADS
I'M THINKING WE'RE BACK

>>106267935
And 'The Spectrum' from retrogames was a sold out as well. revival is underway.

>>106267953
What do people mainly do in terms of monitors? Oldschool or is it okay on a modern one?

>>106265037 (OP)
No thanks.

>>106265037 (OP)
Yes thanks.

>>106265037 (OP)
Are the thingy on the right for playing Guitar Hero or what?

Or I could just use a emulator?

>>106268213
The amount of things that this can do that an emulator can't are too numerous to list. This also has a ton of exclusives coming, new features, and inputs that modern computers don't have. You can have fun on an emulator to check out what the games are like, but this thing is like a dream for people really into this machine.

bump

>>106267150
There's a lot of unemployed yet technically savvy people thanks to the coding bubble burst. They want do something with their skills.

>>106267278
tunak tunak tun tunak tunak tunak tun DA DA DA

Mrmm very good saar buying now !

>>106265037 (OP)
>No F keys
>No numpad
No interested.

>>106269686
it supports an external PS/2 keyboard

>>106270121
I'm guessing the native keyboard is better anyways for what you are doing with it.

>>106270132
It depends on the machine.
They started with the Spectrum but with this 3rd model they plan to add systems like Amiga and Atari ST and beef them up too like they did with Spectrum and QL.
You'd probably need an external keyboard for those.

>>106270213
Ah, good point

Interesting. Always been weirdly fascinated by the Spectrum. Will probably dabble with it for a week then put it back in the box and forget about it. But still.

2 days to decide.

>>106270403
Over 15k games for the Spec alone and once you start programming you won't be able to put it down. There's a reason why its users have such an attachment to it even after all these years

very interesting

>>106265037 (OP)
>almost 500 bucks for something I can emulate for free

>>106272431
Is much more than stock spectrum
Check out the manual of previous model
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/specnext/manual-fixed.pdf
Current mark3 is yet much more than that

>>106265037 (OP)
It looks pretty cool and well designed (which it should be for that price) but it's just for 80s video games? Maybe consider shilling in /vr/ instead.

>>106273630
They expand the capabilities of the supported machines. It is for the retro enthusiasts, yes, but it can pull off a lot more than just 16 color 48k games.
If you wanted to dev retro games around 2000, you had mobiles. Around 2010 you had Steam. Now those markets are gone. On this you can make your Street Fighter or Outrun or Sonic and sell it to 10-20k people and make 100k.
>But you can do that on Genesis
Why not do it on both, plus this is more powerful than Genesis, so you don't have to tinker in assembly that much and it works as an electronic distribution platform.

I need it to run TIC-80 or PICO-8 otherwise I'm not interested.

bump

>>106270653
Yeah that's cool and all but can it do any of the shit windows/linux can do? Is there a 3DCG program on the fuckin thing or I do gotta make one myself on the thing if I want one?

>>106273630 That anwsers my question. I'll just stick to trying to find a job so I can build a decent desktop.

>>106277843
your job could be flipping Next on ebay for x2 the price
to people who missed out
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw="zx+spectrum+next"

>>106268236
NTA but can you elaborate? I was barely a toddler when this was a thing, so I don’t really have a nostalgia boner for it. That being the case, what can this do for me that my beefed up desktop can’t?

>>106265037 (OP)
Does it have an original expansion port so I can use my Romantic Robot Multiface?

>>106265037 (OP)
>Kickstarter keyboard
>shilling
>"blink and you'll miss it!"

>>106265037 (OP)
>Doesn't tightly band the 4 colors together because it wants to avoid undermining the globohomo pride flag
Not interested.

>>106265419
> have a full IDE to work with 12 volt DC relays and switch registers on the peripheral bus
you could do this with a c64 and basic. in 1983.

>>106265037 (OP)
> lisenced
buy a fucking ad and use a spell checker, you illiterate shill.

>>106265082
>I'm not part of the project why would I do that? This is the coolest piece of tech this year. You blink you miss it.
shills really are this embarrassing.

>>106267278
> please give me money for trash
go fuck yourself, nigel. i can't ever imagine giving british people money for a computer that was absolutely buck broken and annihilated by:
> amstrad cpc
> commodore 64
> bbc micro
speccy fanbois just never recovered.

> £320
fuck. lol.

>>106280811
Comparable Commodore product Mega65 is priced at $927
There is a cheaper C64 Ultimate at $300 but it doesn't extend the hardware as much as ZX Next and Mega65
And on top of Spectrum, Next will include expanded C64, CPC, ZX81, Sinclair QL, Sam Coupe and later Amiga and Atari ST cores

>>106267953
i can hear this

>>106281043
Just get a MiSTer

>>106280811
>2Mb RAM
You thought Apple were overpriced.
>>106281043
You are under the illusion that an inflated market shows you. None of these are worth those prices under normal conditions (without hype and publicity).

>>106281043
Holy fuck I am glad I still have my original Amigas and C64.

>>106265082
>coolest piece of tech this year
>Nostalgiafag slop
Grow up. If you remember this system you are a balding man with a mortgage.

>>106265037 (OP)
~$450 for an emulator and a keyboard

>>106282175
>>106282563
You, guys, are missing the point. This is not mister.
Mister does not innovate, it just accumulates things.
Guys behind Next, on the other hand, expand the capabilities of those retro systems. The overhead you pay for years of development is really modest.
This youtuber showcases some games on Next, compare those to vanilla ZX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGuCdSU_-FI
ZX was the first step. They already have somewhat working QL core with fully 32bit 68020 44MHz CPU, 65k colors and AY sound chip. That's something like PSX.
Dev talks about it in this presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUSscLkBI0
Imagine them doing this stuff to C64. CPC, Amiga (Vampire 4 is 636 EUR btw), ST, etc
They are making a platform for retro game development that has a user base and is fun to develop on (unlike those hundreds of ARM handhelds), like back in the day, but you don't have to 100% asm every last byte.

>>106282917
>>106282792

>>106281043
>Comparable Commodore product Mega65 is priced at $927
it's not comparable. the mega65 is superior in every way.but i also think its price is bullshit.
>Next will include expanded C64, CPC, ZX81, Sinclair QL, Sam Coupe and later Amiga and Atari ST cores
mister exists. has existed for quite some time.
>>106282917
>You, guys, are missing the point.
no. we're not. who do you think people are going to trust more? some faggot with a kickstarer to supply alternative cores.. for a spectrum? get real, faggot. as for c64, there's so many different things released..the c64 ultimate is coming out and that thing is awesome. you're really trying to sell this shit hard but nobody is buying it.

>>106283070
>no. we're not. who do you think people are going to trust more? some faggot with a kickstarer to supply alternative cores..
You understand this is a 3rd kickstarter, right? They already shipped twice. This project has been going on for 9 years. Previous machines tend to resell on ebay for double the price.

>>106283208
understood and still nobody gives a fucking shit about what british abject failure is selling whatever garbage computer on some jewish auction site. you are out of your meth soaked mind. and worse of all you couldn't even answer any of the post because you know i'm right about everything. fuck off and die, you useless shill cunt.

>>106265037 (OP)
Whoa. A computer that can run Spectrum, zx81, commodore 64 and CP/M? Dayum.

Wait, is a C compiler in the ROM? In the fucking ROM? Mi gusta! If God forbid I lose every disk, I'll still be able to write new programs!

Too good to be true, can anyone confirm or am I reading incorrectly?

>>106282687
Basically this. Who the fuck even knows what an Amstrad or Cummodore is anymore lmao. What's the discord?

>>106265037 (OP)
remember uoya? this is him now

Has there ever been a kickstarter project that wasn't a scam, garbage, or just never released?

>>106286300
Lots. Just have to learn to read the projects. Does it look like they have already have a viable product and just need the funding to go into production? Or are they looking for money to fund the development? Do they have a track record?

>>106286409
>Lots.
Name a few

>>106286300
Factorio

>>106265037 (OP)
OP, your mistake was assuming people here use computers for fun.

Looks nice, I wish I weren't a broke ass nigga. This and the guy buying the Commodore trademark make this year quite incredible for the retro enthusiasts (i.e.: old farts).

>>106286421
Pebble
Peloton
Arduboy
Anker make
PonoPlayer
3Doodler
Oculus Rift

>>106287046
> buying the Commodore trademark make this year quite incredible for the retro enthusiasts (i.e.: old farts).
not really. it changes nothing. the rights situation is still a mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRb-F-5GSOs
C64 bros!!...
how do we respond?

Bit the bullet.
In it for two.

Who needs a new iPhone this year anyway? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My 12 is still kicking.

>>106289453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UP-n4ZWzvE
bruh

>>106265037 (OP)
>based on dos
No thanks.

>>106289453
>>106291260
>>106265037 (OP)
> creates thread
> gets shit on
> keeps coming back to shill shit that nobody gives a fuck about
just stop, jimmy savile.

>>106282792
thanks, I was wondering what this actually was