The 8-Bit ZX Spectrum Is Even Better Than Ever!

I needed this 40 years ago, not now :D

Great video, however, I do not understand why not to include links to products in video...

I had the zx81 16k expansion pack and a vox box speech synth. Games came in text you had to type them in and save then load. Scramble took ages to write but played great.

Word to the wise. I destroyed our spectrum by hot plugging the joystick adapter into the expansion port while it was powered on. I was probably about 12 at the time.

OMG this is awesome - my Speccy is up in the attic somewhere, I've not seen it in years, I might have to look at all this

My computer: ZX Spectrum 48K * ZX Spectrum 128K +3 * Sam Coupé

If only it had 128K instead of 48KB.

Got a 16K for Christmas 1982, upped to 48K for my birthday in August. Best thing ever 🤩
Today I'm using a "Recreated ZX Spectrum" bluetooth keyboard which links perfectly to my android tablet running a very versatile emulator. Indistinguishable from using my original, the emulator can be set to a variety of different Spectrum models, clones, and even the ZX81 if that's your thing 👍

OMG!

Noslagia...I had one ZX 48K and all of that 3 games too🥰


The sound of loading games....back in 80s immidiately.

Love content u got like and sub!

O M G I miss that way of loading,,, So Nostalgic x x x

Just came across this. I have the Divmmc too, it's amazing with all those new and classic games on, I miss the loading screens a bit, but it just nice to instantly play them and I prefer it that way. A brilliant episode of my favourite 8-bit here. And that HD interface it very tempting too for my channel lol. Liked and subbed mate 👍

I'm not a fan of adding fantasy graphics and sound capabilities to old computers. The SAM Coupe was a historical "super Spectrum", a genuine contemporary, whereas devices like the "ULA Plus" and the "Spectrum Next" are fantasy devices, something dreamed up by random people 35 years later. The real successors to the Spectrum had known specifications, and none of them were actually the same as these modern interpretations. If you want a modern Spectrum, you might as well add a modern GPU, a Core i7 and 64Gb of RAM to it. 😂

I do wonder what making graphic modes/versions for dinosaur/ when box boosting ZX graphics is at lest 100x faster, and could a much better job, of display with free hand, of its own? don't get me wrong I'm all get old hardware to stuff no one ever imagined its could do, make exploits of doing in a new way, way better function, out of the same hardware, SD hard disk drive, is the perfect example add new function, to the same old hardware that never relly there, there where micro drives etc. but no one ever connecter big Winchester, hard drive to a stock ZX 48k spectrum at the the

Wouldn't the DivMMC Enjoy Pro ONE be a better fit? I bought it because it has 2 joystick ports, you can set them up as combinations of Kempston / Sinclair / Cursor / Fuller for the 48K, and Kempston / Cursor / Fuller for the 128K since it already has 2 Sinclair ports.

i'm loving the new Spectrum Touch. And hopefully next month the recreation of the 48k with memory card And Save points. Available from smiths and argos. 40 years since I had the original.

If you wrap the score around on Jetpac, it crashes.

There has never been a better time to be into retro. It is crazy how much stuff is being done. Good video! 👍

Very informative video. Thank you. I am waiting for the release of "The Spectrum" from retro games. I'll compare after that because i have also a vintage ZX Spectrum.

Jetpac the game that broke the rules - i still play that on my arcade machine that runs ZXSPIN.

Back in the day i borrowed my brothers Kempston interface & it looked fairly badic, so i copied it and made my own.
We all learned to play Chaos on our spectrum & today i still have the pc version called Chaos groove & have a quick 8 player round in the evening.

Nice video and nice clean setups;! Only recently I became a Spectrum user . Coming from the Atari 8bit camp, I was interested in Speccy's unique graphical and sound aesthetics compared to the rest of the bunch. Two three years later I managed to get and repair 5 different ZX Spectrum models (and built a ZX pico), upgrade a 48k to the max(sd loader, sound card, 128k),I designed and built a case to ptotect all those cards hanging at the back.... from my cat of course.
Even if I don't enjoy spectrum games like I do on the systems I grew up with, I daily fire up one of my ZXs and browse the vast software library that's now available. I also like to imagine the reactions kids had back in the day especially with a good game! We are so lucky today to have access at so many systems of our past.

That's quite a bit of cash to get it to produce HDMI, read an SD card and hook up a joystick. If only someone would make an exact copy with all these features and sell it on Amazon, Argos, hmv ... 🤔
Keep your eyes peeled, November 22nd!

I had a ZX81 and then a C16.
I'm thinking of getting The Spectrum when it comes out.

This is what happens when u connect pie to c64

That's not a +2 it's a +2 a/b it's black yes with printer port it's a reduced +3 pcb

spectrum owner as a kid. i just wish it could do 4 colours in a character square instead of 2. would have made such a difference to games

If you are also into new games then do yourself a favour and play all Zosya games you can find:
Angels, Valley of Rains, Metal Man Remixed, The Dark, Drift, Northern Lights are my favourites.
Manic Pietro, Space Monsters meet the Hardy and all the other games based on multicolour engines like Bifrost and Nirvana are jaw-droppingly good, too.
Have fun!!

Sounds like +3 distorted sound, needs fixing ;)

i didn't know the +2 had +3 basic built in

One friend bought a C64 and another inherited (got it from he's older cousin) a ZX48... and when I was about 12 (ish) I really liked playing games so we played a lot of Spectrum games... and they where lots of fun! but that cousin had a lot of them so we (me and my friend) never got really deep into them on the Spectrum (maybe a game or two was 2-3 day game) but again when you had +200 to try, we mostly tried them for an hour or two then if not that fun, we tried the next one on the tape and so on...

But on the C64 (another friend) it was sort of different, it was actual music, and actual sound effects and graphics (hardware sprites made a huge difference)... so I had to get myself a C64... so the C64 is my goto computer, but again I do remember a lot of games for the ZX48 (in our case)... super fun!

Sounds like your +2a has got the sound distortion issue. There's a few videos on here on how to fix this. I had it with my +3

I have a ZX-HD for my Spectrum + and it fits nicely on there. It was really easy for a never-assembled-electronic-thingies-before person like me.

Great video. I thought I recognised the voice!

We met at the indie section at Blackpool. I'm the retrogaming odyssey guy.

You're a man of many talents. I'm a c64 guy but I have a few speccys hanging around, and will buy both of those.

Thanks for the great content.

i don't think you mentioned this.. but the inbuilt joystick ports on the +2 are a completely different format than the atari 8bit single button. it's utterly modable.. but another reason to use the divmmc

I'll allways have fond memories of the 48k+ I used to have. I must have been around 14 when I got it. At the time I also had an Amstrad CPC 464 and later on I got a Commodore 64. So back then I didn't have to worry about whether a game was better on Amstrad, C64 or ZX, I had all 3!

Great video! I owned a ZX Spectrum back in the early 80s. It was a 16K model which I upgraded to 48K with some chips bought from a company with an advert in the back pages of Your Computer magazine. I spent many happy hours programming, typing in listings, and of course playing games on it. Atic Atac and Jetpac were two of my favourites too! I don't have my original Speccy any more, but I bought another one from eBay a while ago, and I bought the DivMMC as well. It takes pride of place in my collection and is my favourite 80s home computer, just beating the Acorn Electron, another machine I spent hours on.

Looking forward to The Spectrum but thank you for this video.

I never owned a Spectrum, we had a C64. But I found your video very helpful and fun to watch. Nice to learn things about the Spectrum as well!

I'm not sure if you know this, but Lunar Jetman was the sequel to Jetpac.

That's awesome, I love The Speccy It was my first computer , That dizzy game looks awesome, I really have to play ItI really have to play It

I just received one of those new "Spectrum Next" computers earlier this year from Kickstarter and I've been having a blast with it. I grew up in Canada where the Spectrum was never a thing so it's been mostly a new platform for me. Of course "I knew of" the Spectrum back in the 80s from magazines but that was about it. Lots of great new and old games I had never heard about before. Try "Vampire Vengeance". The Spectrum Next has the SD card and HDMI built in plus new 256 color modes a new line of software for it too, but it's fully backwards compatible with all the older Spectrums. It's not emulation, it's an FPGA core.

Nicely done mate. Enjoyed that. I was given a +2 a few years ago. Still have it