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Thanks, these are handy shortcuts, but I was talking about OSD. Reset works normally for other micros (Amstrad, C64, etc) so I was wondering why is it different for Spectrum...a bug?

I agree it would be nice if the option to reset was available regardless of whether you changed the machine type, but I'd call that a usability design flaw, not a bug.

any updates?

Give love to @benitoss !

If you cannot wait the "real" ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 Kickstarter campaign launches shortly.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sp ... xt-issue-2

I already own one, so I'm super curious to compare it to @benitoss's core.

Fully backed in 5 min, not bad. I had my finger hovering over the pledges, but seeing that ~300 quid price tag was a bit of a damper. Still, good luck to them and hopefully it will result in more active users and more software.

And now, yeah, it's all about @benitoss

The early bird sold out in the time it took my payment details to go through so I missed it. Let's see what the future brings here

I can't face shelling out 300.00 GBP for the Next - I still need a case and a USB board for MiSTer.

Hope Benitoss has made some progress on the Next core. Hopefully no news is good news!

I am sure many people know about the Spectrum Next project.
https://www.specnext.com/
It is an FPGA implementation with some bells and whistles attached.
Is there any chance that someone can organise a port to the MiSTer? There is already a port to the ZXDOS:
https://github.com/zxdos/zxdos-plus
So I imagine it wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility that someone with the correct skillset could port the code?

Thanks for reading.


EDIT:
I made this a new thread and didnt realise this was being discussed here. It was merged into this thread by a moderator, so excuse me if it seems I am not making sense

I wouldn't expect benitoss to do any further work on this by the looks of it. They seem to have made this very clear on the github page, where it says:

"This core contains the latest version of framework and will be updated when framework is updated. There will be no releases. This core is only for developers. Besides the framework, core demonstrates the basic usage. New or ported cores should use it as a template.".

I'm grateful for the work done so far, and I'd definitely be interested to see if anyone else picks it up.

that is just from the mister standard template
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Template_MiSTer

Well, there you go, now I feel a fool. Still, perhaps there's hope it'll get more work at some stage then. So not all bad.

Seems like there's progress on the ZX Next core:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fXEVpndimA

but....

"You need the dual addon SDRAM(32 MB)-SRAM(2 MB) of Manu Fehri",

quoted from Manuels post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/specnext/

Here's the memory module required for Mister to run Spectrum Next:

https://manuferhi.com/p/dual-memory-for ... b-2mb-sram

I hope there can be a 128MB version eventually - swapping the ram when I want to use the Next is not appealing, or a second Mister!

Although the core is running software, there are currently a few issues to iron out on the core according to Fernando on the Spectrum Next Facebook page.

I'm still not really sure I'm getting any use out of my 128MB card anyway. I don't run arcade cores and certainly not NeoGeo ones because I have original hardware for that. At the time I bought my 128MB card that was the only use for it. I don't know if it still is.

GBA has some titles that use more then 32MB if you have the 128MB addon all though they will use the ddram if you dont so its not actually needed but is recommended i think i will wait to see what happens before rushing out for a new ram board

I would really love. Maybe new jotego's memory driver will help this zx next development.

I dont know if I am going mad, but I could have sworn when I ran the update_all script today, I saw a SpectumNeXt mention in the scrolling update information.

Am I going mad?

RetroP wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:01 pm I dont know if I am going mad, but I could have sworn when I ran the update_all script today, I saw a SpectumNeXt mention in the scrolling update information.

Am I going mad?

No, You're not mad.

Here: https://github.com/RW-FPGA-devel-Team/ZXNext_Mister

Cheers.

ron wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:01 pm

RetroP wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:01 pm I dont know if I am going mad, but I could have sworn when I ran the update_all script today, I saw a SpectumNeXt mention in the scrolling update information.

Am I going mad?

No, You're not mad.

Here: https://github.com/RW-FPGA-devel-Team/ZXNext_Mister

Cheers.

I don't think the SRAM / SDRAM issue is resolved though. Not sure it is very usable on Mister yet.

With the 32MB SDRAM + 2MB SRAM module there is no problem with anything.
You mean the 128MB module and SRAM issues ?

The ZX Next core of Mister requires of 2 MB of SRAM to work
The only Dual RAM module for Mister is the 32 MB SDRAM + 2 MB SRAM, sorry.
So, there is not other option for SRAM

Regards

benitoss wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:24 am The only Dual RAM module for Mister is the 32 MB SDRAM + 2 MB SRAM, sorry.

I don't really understand that statement - isn't that 2MB SRAM right there? Or can it not be used because it's also SDRAM?

I mean, this isn't a huge deal for me, I have a Next coming in the next batch but it would have been really nice to be able to crack on with it before then. Something I can't really do yet because there aren't really any good emulation options for M1 Macs right now.

Some news just dropped about an initial port of ZX Spectrum Next.

Can anyone find the readme?

Initial port of the next core for SD Ram is out.

Official version: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ZXNext_MISTer

Playing some Q*bee on the MiSTer ZX Spectrum Next core.
https://youtu.be/3YPAWJoM2BU

Thank you to everyone involved in bringing the ZX Spectrum Next core to the MiSTer.

Absolutely! Thank you to everyone involved in bringing this to the MiSTer.

It changes nothing for me in terms of hardware I'm still really looking forward to getting my Next from KS2 but it's great to be able to get a head start on that and start playing around in hardware now.

Awesome news.
The Next machines are going for crazy money, so this is the "next" best thing....ahem...