ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter 2 live and funded

The ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter 2 campaign went live yesterday (Tuesday, 11th August at 8pm UTC), with a £250,000 (€278,484) funding goal. It was fully funded in about 5 minutes and reached €500,000 in about 20 minutes!

ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign screenshot, showing more than € 500,000
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign: more than € 500,000 in about 20 minutes!

At the time of writing, the first 2 stretch goals (600k: 2MB RAM on all models and 700k: colour printed manual) have been achieved. The campaign will be live until Thursday, September 10 2020 so there are still 29 days left to pledge for this amazing computer; find out more on the Kickstarter project page.

Here are a couple of videos showing the campaign spinning counters at about 11 and 22 minutes from the launch:

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