Brand: SpecNext Ltd.
Model: ZX Spectrum Next
Made in: United Kingdom
First year of production: 2020
Price: £99 (Board only); £175 (standard); £215 (RTC, Wi-Fi); £230 (RTC, Wi-Fi, Raspberry Pi Zero); £210 + VAT (SpecNext webshop)
Board design: Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto
Software: Garry Lancaster, Alvin R. Albrecht
Case design: Rick Dickinson
Dimensions: 331 × 147 × 27 mm
(feet adds 2 mm; keys or R-Pi HDMI adds 2 mm)
Height with legs extended: 38 mm
Weight: 786 g (without Raspberry Pi, with RTC, Wifi)
Box dimensions: 362 × 310 × 70 mm
Issue 2B, also known as the “KS1” as it was the first KickStarter campaign.
The Kickstarter campaign started in April 2017. Production of the first motherboard (Issue 2A) started in November of the same year. Case moulds were produced in April 2018, final motherboards (Issue 2B) in August. Keyboards were finalized in November 2019, delayed due to problems with shifted keys (e.g. Shift+2 for Caps Lock). The computer finally started to get shipped in Februari 2020.
The Spartan 6 is configured with a 3.7 million bit bitstream and these are stored in one of 32 slots in the 128Mbit flash used in KS1 machines. This allows KS1 machines to store up to 32 different cores.