ZX Spectrum - Returning as handheld game console!
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Great find this, Monty on the run was my personal fav....
I showed my young nephew a few games from mid 80's to early 90's and he was shocked how poor they looked. I admitted that when I look back now I wonder how I even made sense of some Atari 2600 games but I guess it was all in the imagination!
I showed my young nephew a few games from mid 80's to early 90's and he was shocked how poor they looked. I admitted that when I look back now I wonder how I even made sense of some Atari 2600 games but I guess it was all in the imagination!
If I were interested I'd rather get a real +3 Speccy and an HxC floppy emulator. I've already got one installed into in my Atari STe.
It's not £100 for this though.
£100 is a backer's level. Indiegogo is like Kickstarter. It's a bit like there are backers for ED who paid more than the price that ED will sell in the shops, for additional rewards. The £100 *backing* price gets extra rewards and a limited edition version of the console
The final product will probably sell for £25 or similar if funding goals are reached.
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No it is not. It's nothing to do with Elite systems and their dubious Bluetooth keyboard (Elite systems, not Frontier Devs Elite/Elite Dangerous).
I know the hardware designer behind it personally and real prototype hardware already exists. It's the guy who wrote the ULA Book (Chris Smith) based on reverse engineering the Spectrum ULA (decapping the chip and photographing it with a microsocope, and drawing it out at the transistor level and on up). Not a scam.
£94K now on their https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega#homehttp:// page.. nearly there.
I'm a BBC micro snob so won't be getting one ;-)
I'm a BBC micro snob so won't be getting one ;-)
Seconded, I loved the Tau Ceti games. Although correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it the second game (Academy) that had the customizable screen layout?
meh better off left in the past.
everytime i try and relive my spectrum days, all i see is 5fps, colour clash, boring loading and/or really crap indie games.
everytime i try and relive my spectrum days, all i see is 5fps, colour clash, boring loading and/or really crap indie games.
Tar Stone
Banned
Thirded! Tau Ceti and Academy were very much ahead of their time. Academy did have the customisable layout which was a touch of genius from Pete Cooke.
Curve Studios, a British developer, are making something very much inspired by Tau Ceti, I'm looking forward to seeing it-
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...asta**_tries_its_hand_at_open_development.php
100 quid, nope!
£100 is too much imho.
I had a 48 in the day, and I was a Speccy crusader and would not hear of any pretender to the throne. Speccy was King!
I have a 128+ now - that's the one with the built-in cassette player, with the dedicated monitor (a bit of screen burn now, but who cares - I use a massive WS telly now ) and loaded up with a laptop hard drive, a compact flash to PCMCIA removable "hard drive", a CDROM and two floppies! It's great fun playing my old faves and my wife and I regularly play Deluxe Galaga in two players at once mode (of which a Windows version is currently being written by Edgar Vigdaal) with it plugged into the big telly.
So I won't be shelling out a hundred quid for this - but can see why others might.
I had a 48 in the day, and I was a Speccy crusader and would not hear of any pretender to the throne. Speccy was King!
I have a 128+ now - that's the one with the built-in cassette player, with the dedicated monitor (a bit of screen burn now, but who cares - I use a massive WS telly now
) and loaded up with a laptop hard drive, a compact flash to PCMCIA removable "hard drive", a CDROM and two floppies! It's great fun playing my old faves and my wife and I regularly play Deluxe Galaga in two players at once mode (of which a Windows version is currently being written by Edgar Vigdaal) with it plugged into the big telly.So I won't be shelling out a hundred quid for this - but can see why others might.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbP__4d7u8 this is cool though
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