Here is a simplistic sample that utilises 3 cascading CTC timers/counters to increment a counter every 1 second and displays the count on the screen.
In Cspect, the counter CTC2 does not cascade from the previous counters, which can be seen. Whereas, on Next hardware, the counter will tick over every second as expected.
https://github.com/blackcataussie/ZXNextCTC/blob/main/CTCTest.asm