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The Speccy2010 takes an external PS/2 keyboard and mouse for input, along with two standard Atari joysticks. Video output is switchable between composite video, S-Video, SCART RGB (using a custom cable to the VGA port) and VGA at 50, 60 or 75Hz.
The Speccy2010 takes an external PS/2 keyboard and mouse for input, along with two standard Atari joysticks. Video output is switchable between composite video, S-Video, SCART RGB (using a custom cable to the VGA port) and VGA at 50, 60 or 75Hz.


The firmware and hardware design are fully open-source, maintained as [http://code.google.com/p/speccy2010/ a Google Code project].
The firmware and hardware design are fully open-source, maintained as [https://code.google.com/archive/p/speccy2010/ a Google Code project].


== Availability ==
== Availability ==
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Around the time these units were on sale, Russian distributor ZST was also offering self-assembly kits [http://www.zxkit.ru/katalog-1/zxkit-005 via the zxkit.ru website]. As of October 2012 these are still advertised on the site, although it's not clear whether these are indeed still available.
Around the time these units were on sale, Russian distributor ZST was also offering self-assembly kits [http://www.zxkit.ru/katalog-1/zxkit-005 via the zxkit.ru website]. As of October 2012 these are still advertised on the site, although it's not clear whether these are indeed still available.


A further batch of Speccy2010 PCBs has since been produced in the Czech Republic - these are available (as bare boards only) from [http://divide.cz/?x=eshopn the divide.cz shop]. Anyone undertaking a Speccy2010 home build project would need to be comfortable with surface-mount soldering, and will likely need to source local equivalents for certain components only available in Russia (Shiru on WOS Forums has [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32362&highlight=speccy2010&page=35 offered to assist] with this).
A further batch of Speccy2010 PCBs has since been produced in the Czech Republic - these are available (as bare boards only) from [http://divide.cz/?x=eshopn the divide.cz shop]. Anyone undertaking a Speccy2010 home build project would need to be comfortable with surface-mount soldering, and will likely need to source local equivalents for certain components only available in Russia (Shiru on WOS Forums has [https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32362&highlight=speccy2010&page=35 offered to assist] with this).


In May 2012, Polish hardware developer [http://lotharek.pl/ Lotharek] announced that he was in the early stages of producing an updated model named Speccy2012 — as of October 2012 further details are yet to emerge.
In May 2012, Polish hardware developer [https://lotharek.pl/ Lotharek] announced that he was in the early stages of producing an updated model named Speccy2012 — as of October 2012 further details are yet to emerge.

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