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After some design and production delays, the first batch of finished units were delivered to backers in March 2020.Ī second Kickstarter launched on 11 August 2020 at 21:00 BST and reached 100% funding (£250,000) within minutes. The board-only computer was delivered to backers in December 2017. Īlthough initially intended to use the original ZX Spectrum's Z80 chip, the design was altered to use the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, to allow "hardware sprites, scrolling, and other advanced features to be incorporated within the machine itself". Due to what campaign creators call "bad tax advice" the production of the machines ended up causing costs instead of revenue to the creators. While the campaign was successful in creating a userbase for the new platform, it wasn't a commercial success. At the end of the campaign 3,113 backers pledged £723,390. A crowdfunding campaign was launched on the Kickstarter platform in January 2017 with an initial funding goal of £250,000. The Next was first announced as a distinct product in 2016 after the participation of original Spectrum industrial designer Rick Dickinson was secured. With the help of Henrique Olifiers the duo wanted to export the TBBlue to the UK, the ZX Spectrum's original home, having received moderate success with the board in Brazil. In 2016, Victor Trucco and Fabio Belavenuto announced the "TBBlue" firmware, named after the two creators and the colour of the solder mask of the motherboard, a bare circuit board implementation of the product for advanced hobbyists. The Next started life in 2010 in Brazil, as a variant of the TK95 Spectrum clone.
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6 Personalities and alternative FPGA cores.