#Spectrum Next

Let’s briefly look back at last year and see what things were like, then look forward to the coming year and what I want to achieve. I did this last year too, and I’ve just been reading that.

I have aspirations of actually making a game for my Spectrum Next. It’d be nice to turn the learning I’ve done into something more than a bunch of videos.

This is not a blog post about making a game, this is a blog post about keeping notes. A few months ago I created a pretty nice template for a Spectrum Next game. It had a little state machine for different screens, an input handler and some text printing routines for debugging.

Let’s explore how 8bit computers worked, looking at their memory, interrupts and DMA.

How to set up Z88DK to develop C programs for the ZX Spectrum Next in about 20 minutes

How to make Amiga like effects on an 8 bit Spectrum

How was 2021 for you? I mean, compared to 2020 it was a big improvement, but that’s a pretty low bar to aim for. Let’s focus more on the projects that I completed and what I learned from them.

How to program keyboards and joysticks on the Spectrum Next

An overview of the Spectrum Next’s hardware sprites

An overview of the Spectrum Next’s Layer 2 bitmap display

How to get started programming the ZX Spectrum Next