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Speccy 2010 / 2012

jayteebeejayteebee
edited September 2012 in Hardware
Hi All,

There are so many projects going on at the moment with the FPGA type spectrum I'm lost and have no idea where to look..

I like the idea of the Speccy 2010 / 2012 (lotharek.pl) and was wondering have are any of these hardware (spectrum ready!) devices available for purchase and any websites that support the development of the software etc...

I'd really be interested in one of these...

Thanks

JTB
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  • kpuchatekkpuchatek
    edited September 2012
    Better check http://www.retroleum.co.uk/v6z80p/.
    Highly recommended.
  • chevchev
    edited September 2012
    kpuchatek wrote: »
    Better check http://www.retroleum.co.uk/v6z80p/.
    Highly recommended.

    I'll second that. Alessandro has a copy of the ULA book so this should be very accurate. The core currently provides ULAplus support, but may be extended to provide Chloe 280SE support in future.
    zx.itch.io
  • jayteebeejayteebee
    edited September 2012
    Hi aowen,

    I know you're a man of Spectrum wisdom!

    Could you possibly tell me the difference between the Speccy 2010 board and the V6Z80P in terms of how it emulates the spectrum.

    According to Matt Wescott in his video of the Speccy 2010 he says that board simulates (however he phrases it!) at a hardware level i.e. "the electrons through the circuit!" or something along that line.

    How does this differ from the 6VZ80P other that that the 6VZ80P has the EMU program to run for the spectrum emulator?

    Why would one choose the 6VZ80P as opposed to the Speccy 2010/12 and visa versa?

    Anyway I've ordered a 6VZ80P because of the feedback on here and if you recommend it then it must be good!

    Thanks

    JTB
  • mcleod_ideafixmcleod_ideafix
    edited September 2012
    aowen wrote: »
    I'll second that. Alessandro has a copy of the ULA book so this should be very accurate. The core currently provides ULAplus support, but may be extended to provide Chloe 280SE support in future.

    The weak point about these general-purpose boards, like V6Z80P, or Chamaleon is that they all lack a ZX compatible rear bus connector. Without that it's very difficult (if not impossible) to connect modern (like the Spectranet, SPECTRA and the DivIDE) and old interfaces (like the Specdrum, Disciple, Opus Discovery, +D, etc). Some of these (the easiest ones) devices could be added to the FPGA core, but others are too complex to do so.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2012
    jayteebee wrote: »
    Hi aowen,

    I know you're a man of Spectrum wisdom!

    Could you possibly tell me the difference between the Speccy 2010 board and the V6Z80P in terms of how it emulates the spectrum.

    According to Matt Wescott in his video of the Speccy 2010 he says that board simulates (however he phrases it!) at a hardware level i.e. "the electrons through the circuit!" or something along that line.

    How does this differ from the 6VZ80P other that that the 6VZ80P has the EMU program to run for the spectrum emulator?

    Why would one choose the 6VZ80P as opposed to the Speccy 2010/12 and visa versa?

    Anyway I've ordered a 6VZ80P because of the feedback on here and if you recommend it then it must be good!

    Thanks

    JTB
    Unfortunately you won't get an answer from aowen as he's longer a member of these forums.

    I'll try and contact him and get an answer for you, it could take a bit of time as he could be anywhere on the seven seas...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • Paddy ColemanPaddy Coleman
    edited September 2012
    karingal wrote: »
    Unfortunately you won't get an answer from aowen as he's longer a member of these forums.

    I'll try and contact him and get an answer for you, it could take a bit of time as he could be anywhere on the seven seas...

    Has Andrew left again? When did that happen?

    Paddy
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2012
    Paddy Coleman wrote: »
    Has Andrew left again? When did that happen?

    Paddy
    Last Sunday...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • kpuchatekkpuchatek
    edited September 2012
    Main difference is that you can easily get V6 board from Phil, who is actively supporting this board since few years. Try to get Speccy2010 now, good luck with that.
    On technical level V6 has real Z80, Speccy uses soft core T80. V6 has perfect-cycle zx config, Speccy2010 was built mainly as Pentagon FPGA clone, it supports many file formats including TRD. V6 does not have Pentagon timings (at least not yet).
    V6 has also nativa OSCA config - Amiga on Z80, but as long as not much software is written for it, it is just nice FPGA show.
  • jayteebeejayteebee
    edited September 2012
    Thanks for that kpuchatek... very enlightening!!

    I've ordered a board from Phil, should be ready next week..

    Has anyone got any links to other interesting stuff for this board becides the usual wiki etc...

    Thanks

    JTB
  • kpuchatekkpuchatek
    edited September 2012
    No, the only source of V6 software is Phil's Website. Probably there are more owners of this board than applications written for it :D.
    We need time machine to send it to 80's.
  • jayteebeejayteebee
    edited September 2012
    kpuchatek wrote: »
    No, the only source of V6 software is Phil's Website. Probably there are more owners of this board than applications written for it :D.
    We need time machine to send it to 80's.

    Absolutely!!

    I'd thought I'd just mention I'm getting married in 4 hours (2pm GMT). It's a good job the wife to be had a spectrum too in the 80's or she might have put a dampener on the board buying business... lol

    I don't think so.. She just humours me and gets on with it when I'm in my little retro world...

    Ha! ha!

    JTB
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