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Mind that Spectrum NEXT is rarely avail, currently making it up to 1100 GBP for White next 2 accel on SpNEXT website and 1000 euros for black one on ebay

English is obviously not my first language.
I find modern FPGA board (here Sp NEXT) way more reliable then Sinclair 84 to 86 hardware and even other expansions of the time. Purely at hardware level.

Exile wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:12 pm I got my Xberry Pi from https://zxrenew.co.uk/Xberry-Pi-p596973674 for £98.88 + £4.95 P&P. I ordered it 2 weeks ago and it was delivered 3 days after I ordered it. They still have them available now. I'm not sure what happens with posting outside of the UK though.

Thank You for this information and the link. One question for the ZX Spectrum Next/XBerry Pi. Do they have (QL-)network ports like the Q68? Without I think it is a a bit useless at least as a QL. This is because you need the network to be able to access real floppy or micro drives on a BBQL (or Gold, Super Gold Card QL) with running TK2 FSERVER.

Hiya!

QLAN/Sinclair Network access is available via a simple adapter via the Next's Joystick port (#1) and a new driver - ND-Nxt.

The schematic for the Joy2NET adapter (as I chose to call it) along with the ND-Nxt driver software is published elsewhere and I'm currently updating some documentation to explain how to build the adapter, which I'll share here in a few days.

Stand-by

vox wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:25 pm Mind that Spectrum NEXT is rarely avail, currently making it up to 1100 GBP for White next 2 accel on SpNEXT website and 1000 euros for black one on ebay

You should consider to buy one and report here about your experience.

Maskenlos wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2024 5:54 pm You should consider to buy one and report here about your experience.

Yes I do, but as soon as they appear on Kickstarter or other way for
normal 300 GBP price. I am not willing to pay inflated prices by unavailability

ql_freak wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2024 10:36 pm Thank You for this information and the link. One question for the ZX Spectrum Next/XBerry Pi. Do they have (QL-)network ports like the Q68? Without I think it is a a bit useless at least as a QL. This is because you need the network to be able to access real floppy or micro drives on a BBQL (or Gold, Super Gold Card QL) with running TK2 FSERVER.

No, its not QL.
Advanced models have Wi Fi and it has SD Card slot.
You are supposed to use image files, like vDrive and not hook to real QL.

After all its core for FPGA board, not new hardware model.

Hi everyone!

Just to share that the guide to QL and Spectrum networking has just been updated with material on the Spectrum Next/QL-Core network support.

You can find the updated guide in the post here: viewtopic.php?t=5089

Martyn.

New 65K colour mode (Aurora compliant)

Maybe you mean Q40/Q60/Q68/QIMSI compliant, as the Aurora had only 256 colours?
(The image upload does not seem to have worked.)