£550,000 – The Holy Manual
A wire bound printed manual upgrade, with a sci-fi cover to invoke warm feelings on those in the know.
500 more Pi zeroes are now available in another accelerated tier. About 250 left as I write this....![]()
You can turn the acceleration on and off. Some games were a bit slow, and are very enjoyable if just a bit faster... sometimes useful, for example, if you have things that calculate things (voice synthesizers, for example, or math... a faster designer pencil, for example....).Weird... people going for this accelerated version :/
Any software that relied on the 50hz interrupt to synchronise the game logic will benefit from a boost in CPU speed - just take any emulator that can run at 7/14/28/50Mhz and run a Freescape game for example. Programs written in BASIC will get a welcome speed boost. The ROM would likely need to be modified though; loading from tapes won't work with an accelerated z80.
Would love to see Starion, starstrike, elite, gyron, Tau Ceti and others running with more CPU.
Which emulators support the higher clocks? I may have to do some testing in preparation for the Next![]()
The video on the campaign shows 3D Starstrike 1 & 2 running at 7mhz.
Fuse lets you select the CPU percentage, I just tried it at 200% for things like Chase HQ & others.
Yes, see Ian J's post... Castlevania, Robocop... those games...Some games were a bit slow?? you mean on the original Spectrum??