00:00This may look like a regular ZX Spectrum,
00:02but is nothing but.
00:04Inside it is a ZX Spectrum Next board
00:10powering it.
00:11And I will now hook it up to an HDMI monitor
00:14and show you it running some old games,
00:18some new games, demos,
00:19and some of the technical aspects of it.
00:21So I'm gonna start by playing
00:24some good old favorites, why not Night Lore?
00:33There you go.
00:40As you can see, it runs just like the original.
00:45But that's to be expected, right?
00:47We could make it the next not to be fully compatible
00:50with the original.
00:52But let's not stop at the game.
00:55Let's try a very good challenge,
00:57like this demo.
00:58Now, this demo uses timings to extend the image to the borders.
01:03It's using border effects, like games like Aquaflade and so on,
01:07to extend the video.
01:09Now, this is such a hard demo to run,
01:12even some emulators cannot do it.
01:14It's a testimony to Victor and Fabio's ingenuity
01:17that the next is able to run at such a precise timing in the ULA
01:22that it can run something like this.
01:25This game was so slow back in the day
01:27that very few people managed to play it on the spectrum.
01:30Now, let's see how it looks on the next.
01:47Very low frame rate, as you can tell.
01:49But if I turn on the acceleration, all of a sudden, yeah, this is playable now.
01:56Doesn't mean that I know how to play it.
02:00But nonetheless, the frame rate is...
02:06makes it possible for you to play the game.
02:12Let me try something else that I'm actually decent at.
02:16Let's say 3D Star Strike.
02:18A typical 3D game for the spectrum.
02:23So this is how we used to play.
02:27And we loved this game back in the day.
02:32But if I accelerate it,
02:36the sound keeps running just fine,
02:38gameplay is just fine,
02:39it's just the frame rate that goes up.
02:41It's incredible.
02:43I always assumed that some of these games would be
02:47unplayable if you just accelerate the Z80,
02:50but actually no.
02:53It's much more fun.
02:55And much more interesting to look at.
03:06You can also do Star Strike 2
03:08because I know some people
03:10keep asking this on Facebook group
03:12how does it play.
03:14So, let me show you how does it play
03:16Accelerator.
03:24There you go.
03:27Again, very playable.
03:29One of the original games
03:30that we couldn't play back in the day.
03:33Performance just wasn't there for the spectrum
03:35to run these games.
03:36Now, we can do it.
03:38Now that we know that the Next
03:39can run our old favorite games
03:41better than they used to,
03:43let's try something else.
03:45Let's try to make the Next
03:48run them better looking than they did.
03:53So, this is Cybernoid 2,
03:55and one of the games that allow you to
03:57turn on the enhanced color modes.
04:00There you go.
04:05This makes the game look much better
04:07than they did before.
04:17There you go.
04:17Colors that we didn't used to have originally,
04:19like oranges and...
04:22but it's still the same game.
04:28And I'm still suck at it.
04:31This is the accelerated version of Robocop 2.
04:34Again,
04:36it plays better accelerated.
04:46Here's a game that should totally get a remake.
04:50Using better graphics and...
04:55That shit is just amazing.
04:56I play it in accelerated mode, by the way,
04:59because the frame rate gets better.
05:01But also means it's much more harder to play.
05:04You can tell that the sound is slightly more high-pitched
05:07than the original.
05:09This is how it used to sound like.
05:12And play like.
05:16Not sure about you, but...
05:19I prefer this mode.
05:22I think even the sound gets better,
05:24if I'm honest.
05:30Homebrew.
05:30The Spectre is alive and well.
05:32Games continue to be made for it.
05:34This is a 2015 game.
05:38And not only is great...
05:43It plays very well thanks to accelerated mode.
05:48Look at how smooth the graphics are.
05:51Let me turn it off,
05:53and you'll see that now things got slower,
05:55less frames and so on.
05:56But with the accelerated mode,
05:58the scrolling is smooth,
05:59the characters flow,
06:02just like in the best parts of the game.
06:09It's surprisingly playable.
06:15This is Doom on the Spectrum.
06:18Not very many people saw this.
06:20but...
06:23Of course, with the next,
06:25not only we can play it,
06:27but we can crank up
06:29the best DJ mode
06:31available for the game.
06:54the time.
07:06The flu, the host,
07:11The X-Fodak ,
07:12the X-Fodak ,
07:12the X-Fodak ,
07:13the X-Fodak ,
07:18so we can go down,
07:18we can players and go down,
07:19After the X-Fodak ,
07:20from the X-Fodak ,
07:24Another important aspect to mention is the HDMI out.
07:28This monitor is HDMI connected to the HDMI output, could have been VGA or RGB, but I'm
07:34using HDMI and the audio also comes out of the HDMI, although I could connect an audio
07:41output here to the home theater system or something like that.
08:13So, I'll show you how to use the HDMI output.
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