ZX SPECTRUM NEXT – The official portal for all things Next

New Turbo modes: 14 and 28MHz

The Next has just gained two extra Turbo speeds, 14MHz and 28MHz, on top of...
The Shop is now live!

It feels like it was yesterday that the Kickstarter campaign was funded beyond anyone's expectation,...
Wonderful Dizzy

Wonderful Dizzy is a new game directed by the Oliver Twins, creators of the original...

From the magic team that brought us the amazing Castlevania: Spectral Interlude comes a new Beat'em'Up for the Next called No Fate. If their Castlevania work...

June 20, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Hero Article, News,

The Next has just gained two extra Turbo speeds, 14MHz and 28MHz, on top of...

June 18, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Hero Article, News,

It feels like it was yesterday that the Kickstarter campaign was funded beyond anyone's expectation,...

June 9, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Coding, Downloads, Utilities,

Jim has put together a set of tools to help converting .BMP images to the...

June 4, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Downloads, Utilities,

TommyGun is a suite of tools aimed at sprites editing and animation, by Tony Thompson. Some...

June 4, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Coding, Downloads, Utilities,

UDGee is a handy sprite editor by forum member 'emook', and makes use of the...

June 3, 2017 Carlos Henrique Olifiers Off Downloads, Utilities,

One of the best Speccy emulators, ZEsarUX, features support for the Spectrum Next. The emulator by...

May 29, 2017 Fabio Belavenuto Off Hardware,

The editor module allows the user to make changes to some of the Next/TBBlue settings....

May 29, 2017 Fabio Belavenuto Off Hardware,

The internal Turbo Sound Next interface is an evolution of the original Turbo Sound, supporting...

May 29, 2017 Fabio Belavenuto Off Hardware,

The Spectrum Next and the TBBlue have an anti-brick system that allows to recover the machine...

May 29, 2017 Fabio Belavenuto Off Hardware,

The Spectrum Next standard boards with 1024K SRAM are mapped as follows: 0x000000 - 0x00FFFF...

Henrique Olifiers

1 month ago

It has been a while, but we finally managed to add a Shop section to the site. It's now possible to pre-order a Next and a board over there.

Two important details, though: those bought on the site will be delivered slightly later thank the Kickstarter and; they are no longer at cost, we added a fair 20% margin on top.

This way we feel it's a good balance, protecting the backers' investment and initiative while also giving those who couldn't join the crowdfunding a way to get a Next. ;)

Read all about it here: ... See MoreSee Less

The Shop is now live! – ZX SPECTRUM NEXT

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It feels like it was yesterday that the Kickstarter campaign was funded beyond anyone’s expectation, and we happily unlocked all the stretch goals to create a bigger and better ZX Spectrum Next for ...

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Dragan Toroman

3 hours ago

Just unpacked my TWO brand new Next joysticks (as in TWO joystick ports) :) ... See MoreSee Less

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Lyndon J Sharp

5 hours ago

While it was down I though I'd add some toys to my NEXT board. Soldered an D9Sub on and a WiFi module. Anyway 2 days ago I fired the NEXT up , nothing, dead. OUCH! the voltage reg is red hot. Checked my soldering, nothing touching. Same again hot regs. Tried to desolder the wifi module (fat chance), ended up snipping it off. NEXT back up and working again and cool runnings. I guess cheap wifi modules off ebay are not the way forward (or not all wifi modules have the same pin outs even though they are the same spec). Be careful when doing DIY upgrades, that could have cost me a board.
If I've learnt one thing from this, the TBBlue board appears to be pretty robust againts DIY cockups and my Joystick now works :) ... See MoreSee Less

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Mike Dailly

4 hours ago

Working out some drawing code, and the bank swapping is killing me. I'm having to copy graphics/code into a buffer, so that I can then change bank and draw into another banked area. Remember I can't use the HW sprites at all, everything is CPU drawn due to the numbers involved....

What would be great, is if we could have a port that would set the bank to be R/W, and a 2 port mode, where one would be for reading, and one would be for writing. This would be a huge aid when dealing with graphics in banked memory... :(

So it would work much like the Layer 2 screen banked into $0000-$3FFF, where a read would get ROM and a write goes to the RAM.

I understand we're quite a ways in... but...well... 1 paging bank for larger graphics and the 256 colour byte-per-pixel mode is horrible. ... See MoreSee Less

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Kevin Panther

3 hours ago

Hello spectrum fans people that backed it are getting one but if you did not back do you think will bring it in amazon or eBay to buy ... See MoreSee Less

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New Turbo modes: 14 and 28MHz

The Shop is now live!

Wonderful Dizzy

Happening now on the Next

No Fate

Nodes of Yesod Next

Sprites

TBBlue I/O port system

Nextipede

New Turbo modes: 14 and 28MHz

The Shop is now live!

Jim Bagley’s sprite tools

TommyGun – Sprite Editor Suite

UDGee – Sprite Editor

ZEsarUX: Next emulator

Editor module

Turbo Sound Next

Anti-brick system

SRAM memory map