BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next
I’ve been looking for a decent project to get my teeth into on the Spectrum Next. Apart from my Next Z80 library routines, I’ve dabbled with a few demos, and considered writing a drawing package similar to Deluxe Paint. But on the whole have felt rather unenthusiastic about starting that
BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next launched on May 29, 2021 with 41 votes, #1,181 of 3,505 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next is a programming environment for the Spectrum Next retro computer. It brings the classic BBC Basic language to the modern hardware, allowing users to write and run programs on the system. The tool is designed for hobbyists and enthusiasts interested in learning programming or developing games and applications on the Spectrum Next platform. It combines vintage computing nostalgia with contemporary hardware capabilities.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
I’ve been looking for a decent project to get my teeth into on the Spectrum Next. Apart from my Next Z80 library routines, I’ve dabbled with a few demos, and considered writing a drawing package similar to Deluxe Paint. But on the whole have felt rather unenthusiastic about starting that project. Last week inspiration hit me. I’ve already started porting the Z80 version of BBC Ba
JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. I’ve been looking for a decent project to get my teeth into on the Spectrum Next. Apart from my Next Z80 library routines, I’ve dabbled with a few demos, and considered writing a drawing package similar to Deluxe Paint. But on the whole have felt rather unenthusiastic about starting that project. Last week inspiration hit me. I’ve already started porting the Z80 version of BBC Basic (by R.T.Russell) to my homebrew Z80 computer, the BSX . Why not port it to the Next? BBC Basic is, in my honest opinion, a best-in-class BASIC interpreter. The original, written by Sophie Wilson, is fast,…from breakintoprogram.co.uk
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- IRI recovered one of my earliest ZX-Spectrum games from an audio cassette2025 · ▲49
Recently, I managed to recover some of my earliest work from the ZX Spectrum era from an old audio cassette. It is a mini-game, that I created as a teen, called "Atomix," written in BASIC with a mix of Z80 assembly — some of which I coded myself, while other parts were disassembled from existing games. I put the game in an modern emulator and recorded a screencast. See the video in my linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7288665...
My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad2025 · github.com · ▲575Finally got my hobby OS up and running on real hardware. I love the old IBM thinkpads, so thought it was the perfect machine to get it working on. Been working on it for quite some time now, but this has been a big milestone!
- IRI recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas2025 · jdfio.com · ▲189
After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
- ASA Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator2025 · ▲80
Lots of fun to do. I would have not taken the time without the speedup provided by Claude. https://andyrosa.github.io/Sinclaude/simulator.html
- EZESP32S3 ZXSpectrum2024 · ▲109
I've been playing around with ESP32 MCUs and displays for a while and finally got around to getting a ZX Spectrum emulator working. I then saw that you can now do full color silk screen printing on PCBs and got the thinking - the ESP32 has capacitive touch capabilities - I could make a full ZX Spectrum keyboard on a PCB along with all the electronics for running the emulator. And it actually works! There's a full video here: https://youtu.be/foP81O48WAI And you can sign up here for updates as I move towards getting it ready for a production run:…
More work this month
the category →
Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.
Work · 25d ago · loficities.com
Smooth Recorder▲257Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop
Work · 19d ago · smoothrecorder.com
Work · 13d ago · readrare.com
Source: Show HN post ↗
Launched alongside, May 2021
the whole month →
An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C. Contribute to eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 2021 · github.com
Notion API beta▲835Connect Notion to the tools you use every day
Dev tools · 2021 · developers.notion.com
How to build an audience-driven business
Growth · 2021 · embeddedentrepreneur.com
