Once we heard a few new ZX Spectrum venture, in fact we have been all ears and we wished to see what was being deliberate. So we met up with the person behind the venture Henrique Olifiers means again in January 2016 and after just some minutes …we have been bought!

Henrique informed us about his plan and his ardour for gaming and his love for the Speccy since he was a boy and the way in style the house pc was abroad in his native nation of Brazil.

Assembly Henrique at Play Blackpool in 2016:

Henrique is aware of the video video games scene very properly, he runs Bossa Studios a gaming firm that produces many in style video games, he is aware of in regards to the indie scene the place video games and dev’s are producing and attempting new {hardware}. However Henrique’s heritage stems again to the 80s like alot of us and with him his old flame was the ZX Spectrum and Sinclair!

He went on to inform us what he had in retailer for his creation and for each retrogaming fan that lived the times of loading video games by cassette and listening to that screeching sound for minutes if the sport loaded!

Kickstarter Trailer:

The ZX Spectrum Subsequent is every thing the ZX Spectrum wished to be again within the day and is all it may be and extra as we speak. Full of main enhancements, tech and wizardry the ZX Spectrum Subsequent will likely be true to Sir Clive’s imaginative and prescient whereas bringing it to the subsequent era.

Most of all this factor appears to be like dope!

Designed by the unique designer of the Speccy (Rick Dickinson) it actually is sweet to take a look at and can look nice up towards any laptop computer or pill even as we speak, so we all know you need the juicy bits and here’s what the ZX Spectrum Subsequent is packing as commonplace (there will likely be extra added as a part of the stretch targets):

Processor: Z80 3.5Mhz and 7Mhz modes Reminiscence: 512Kb RAM (expandable to 1.5Mb internally and a pair of.5Mb externally) Video: {Hardware} sprites, 256 colors mode, Timex 8×1 mode and many others. Video Output: RGB, VG

A, HDMI Storage: SD Card slot, with DivMMC-compatible protocol Audio: 3x AY-3-8912 audio chips with stereo output + FM sound Joystick: DB9 appropriate with Cursor, Kempston and Interface 2 protocols (selectable) PS/2 port: Mouse with Kempston mode emulation and an exterior keyboard Particular

Multi performance for reminiscence entry, savegames, cheats and many others. Tape help: Mic and Ear ports for tape loading and saving Growth: Authentic exterior bus growth port and accelerator growth port Accelerator board (non-compulsory): GPU / 1Ghz CPU / 512Mb RAM Community (non-compulsory): Wi Fi module Extras: Actual Time Clock (non-compulsory), inner speaker (non-compulsory)

Now as you in all probability already know by now the Kickstarter for the ZX Spectrum Subsequent has already began and has finished amazingly properly.

Henrique and his wonderful workforce was seeking to elevate 250k, and completely smashed the 200k determine in much less 24hrs! After simply over a day it was funded to the tune of £250,000.

Since then new perks and stretch targets have been added to the marketing campaign to assist make the ZX Spectrum Subsequent even higher for you guys….together with dinner with Henrique and video games legend Jim Bagley!

All data may be discovered on the hyperlinks under on the official kickstarter web page!…..Return it!

http://www.specnext.com/ – Official Web site

https://goo.gl/tVPKlk – Kickstarter Marketing campaign

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