White Next Contest – Entries List and Poll
UPDATE – 11/05/2025 – Poll will be reset and extended. Someone today attempted to abuse the polling system and entered a lot of votes under a continuous loop. This user has been now banned and the poll will be reset (auto-cleanup of votes happens every day) and extended for 11 days. Next attempt at abuse will ban the favoured program from competition
Entry: Next Point
Developer: Victor Morilla
Type: Game / Sports
Platform: Spectrum Next
Download here
Entry: SCN Driver
Developer: Simon N Goodwin
Type: Device Driver / SuperBASIC extension
Platform: QL Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: ZNC Compiler Suite
Developer: Chris Taylor
Type: Native Programming Language suite (Compiler/Editor/Optimiser/Assembler)
Platform: Spectrum Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: Jetman In Space
Developer: Maciej Miklas
Type: Arcade Game
Platform: Spectrum Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: SSX (Sam Coupe Screen Viewer)
Developer: Robert Morrison
Type: DOT Command / Utility
Platform: Spectrum Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: Eternal Battle
Developer: SaNchez / Alexandr Udotov
Type: Arcade Game
Platform: Spectrum Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: Next Fractal Explorer
Developer: Matthew Thompson
Type: Mandelbrot Set Plotter
Platform: Spectrum Next
Read the documentation / details and download here
Entry: Next2Net
Developer: Martyn Hill
Type: Hardware Interface
Platform: QL Next
An early version of the Next2Net adapter was shown during Crash Live! 2024. Documentation and schematics are here
Entry: PCQLTransfer
Developer: Johan Engdahl
Type: Network utility
Platform: QL Next
When downloading the file below pay attention to unzip the QL portion within a QXL.WIN container as it will lose its headers if you do not
Selection process
Public votes will carry a 70% weight of the results while the Next team’s votes will carry a 30% weight.
Voting will close on May 29th at midnight GMT and final results will be announced during the SpecNext and KS3 talk at RetCon 2025 in Barnhill Community Centre and Social Club, Ayles Road, Hayes, UB4 9HG
Link for the above event: https://retconfestival.co.uk/
Since we only had ONE entry for hardware, we will give Martyn an honourable mention at this point (but please do vote for him) and redo a hardware-only contest in June 2025!