Will we be able to play +3 Discs and how?

[Dinky74]

Not sure if this has been answered anywhere but was wondering if there is a way to play physical +3 discs on the shiny NEXT

[seedy1812]

If you mean using an external drive which would have plugged into Disk B connector at the back of the +3 then no as that connector is not on the Next

[Alcoholics Anonymous]

Besides the connector problem, the disk drive code was removed from nextzxos to make way for the sd card code and other extensions. Instead +3 disk images are supported but only standard ones that call into the +3 api to access disk because if programs do that, nextzxos is able to intercept the +3 api call and service from the image instead.

A plain +3 personality could be made that still had all the code intact but then you're still left with the problem of attaching a physical +3 disk drive.

[EtchedPixels]

I am sure you could use the PI GPIO lines and some level shifters to interface a real +3 drive. The Pi is probably fast enough to do the raw signal processing by bitbanging providing its running bare metal.....