I've spent the last few evenings going back to a few of my old test programs I wrote for the SpectrumNext ages ago. I've got a handful, but none of them are really 'complete'. I was just writing them in notepad and copying them onto the SD image, so I decided to try out RemySharp's NextBASIC plug...

I've had my Kickstarter-2 Spectrum Next sitting on my bench since it first arrived. I played with it for a few weeks when it landed, and then I loaded up the Next Core on the MisterFPGA downstairs instead. Why? I prefer the full 101 key keyboard I have with the Mister. I also prefer the giant...

I've been using my Speccy Next for a few years. It's a wonderful machine, but the documentation and experience are VERY raw. The manual just doesn't have the immediacy of the original Spectrum manual.. It's tiny text, with long paragraphs, and there's just too much text. Text text text. I know th...

Last week I wrote about the diving I've done back into Spectrum BASIC coding.

I have to say that it's been a LOT of hard work to update the old code. Updating it to work on all the newer machines and emulators, while still being able to fit the original code's purpose; to work on a 16Kb con...

In this day and age most coders won't get out of bed unless there's a syntax-highlighting intellisense-enabled, bracket-matching, library-aware, compiler-linked IDE to use. It's a far cry from the old days when all you had was a keyboard..... yeah, not even an editor... you just turned the machin...