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Re:The Chloe 280SE, a New Z80 Microcomputer by abraxas on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:47AM (#22236870)
At the risk of hijacking the thread... but in case you haven't heard there is a scrappy band of hackers who have put together a modern ZX Spectrum clone that is fully compatible with the original machines and has an open architecture. They are currently conducting a poll to find out if there is demand for a second Kickstarter run (they are currently shipping the computers to the original backers). If you have some ZX nostalgia in you and want to support the cause please visit their site and vote in the survey.

site link:

https://www.specnext.com/

survey link:

https://www.specnext.com/kickstarter-2-poll/

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Re:The Chloe 280SE, a New Z80 Microcomputer by lproven on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:23PM (#22261101)
Yeah, I think virtually everyone still interested in the Spectrum in 2017 onwards knows about that.

The thing is, it's an at-least-partially closed design, the only way to get it to subscribe to the kickstarter, and it doesn't comply with the modern enhanced-Spectrum-graphics standard ULA Plus, because some of the team had an argument with some of the ULA Plus team.

The Chloe has been around for longer, it's 100% FOSS, and it runs on the €35 ZX UNO FPGA board.

They're both interesting but IMHO the Chloe is more interesting.

BTW, I have no connection with anyone involved in either bar talking to them on Twitter & FB. E&OE, as they say.

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Re:The Chloe 280SE, a New Z80 Microcomputer by lproven on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:31AM (#22265338)
Update: apparently, now, the SpecNext has added ULA Plus compatibility, but not licensed the trademark so they don't say so.

Still, this is good news. There are already enhanced games that use it, originally for emulators and later for machines upgraded with a physical ULA Plus chip...

https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/slam-ula-plus-repl...

... and now you'll be able to play them on actual hardware.

Examples of such games and how they look: https://sites.google.com/site/ulaplus/

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