The 48K and 128K machines now load tapes from a FAT32 card through a menu, with the 128K machine playing Spellbound for three minutes with six banks in DDR3. A USB keyboard and controller are hosted directly by the FPGA on both USB-A ports; the earlier failure was a keyboard emitting a vendor report prefix, not a port problem.

All 22 Spec256 packs the 48K format can express were run on the board: 14 passed on the day, five more were fixed by one correction to how the graphical lanes follow the master's addresses, and two remain open.

Episode 5: Giving the ZX Spectrum 256 Colours on Real FPGA Hardware