Sinclair retro spectrum computer

[Mikes10 10]

This cannot be true... its not the 1st of April is it?

http://retro-computers.co.uk/products/

[Ghozer 112]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega

[JFKvsNixon 11]

This cannot be true... its not the 1st of April is it?

http://retro-computers.co.uk/products/

 

It looks good fun, it claims that it comes with 1000 games built in with the opportunity to download more. I'm sure that there is a market for 40 somethings to play Manic Minor and Hungry Horace for a few hours.

Edited December 2, 2014 by JFKvsNixon

[tzijlstra 11]

If I had the money I'd be interested. Never played the Sinclair games as it was, as far as I know, never released in the Netherlands.

 

There are lots of reproduced retro computers out now, they are great machines for teaching kids programming as well.

[discodown 11]

This cannot be true... its not the 1st of April is it?

http://retro-computers.co.uk/products/

Why not?

 

The spectrum was a magnificent beast. Clive Sinclair was the UK's Steve Jobs if it wasn't for the fact he put his faith in the fairly badly thought out C5 he might have been producing smartphones, laptops and tablets by now. Its no coincidence that theres a thriving tech industry around Cambridge where he did - and for all I know still does - his best work. Theres a couple of generations of british programmers, computer engineers, game designers and much more who started and cut their teeth on the Spectrum, don't count it out, Worse Things Happen At Sea is still one of the most fun games i've ever played

[alchresearch 214]

The Speccy fans on Spectrum Forever facebook page aren't impressed.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/speccy4ever/?fref=nf

 

Some of the comments:

 

I really don't get this...

 

Me neither; D-pad is from the wrong era, many disadvantages over an emulator (limited games, can't fix if problems, holding it in your hands while it is connected to power and the TV!?)

 

You know I was very excited when I heard there was a new Speccy coming. Then I saw this. Its insane. Yes it possibly does run all games. But who's to say that they are playable. Nah, I'll give it a miss.

 

No text adventures or sims

 

imagine trying to play classics like Skooldaze etc. Never going to work.

 

What I would like to see is a reproduction 48K spectrum keyboard that comes with something standard such as a Raspberry Pi inside. Customise it to boot into the Speccy emulator within some distro, and allow an override to boot into Linux too. Full keyboard, games on SD, configurable and upgradable, HDMI output, Bluetooth or USB controllers, emulate other machines too. Now that would be really exciting.

 

I think the lack of keys and HDMI is a big miss. On screen keyboard doesn't make adventures or even skool daze playable. I also doubt we'd see any Codemasters/Activision games on here without them getting the dodgy porno lawyers involved. There are alternatives being developed with DivIDE and Multiface support as standard which would work better

 

Anyone interested in reliving their retro past would be better sourcing a cheap Spectrum from Gumtree or Ebay and then buying one of the modern SD card interfaces that are now available, or even via an MP3 player or PC:

 

[swarfendor437 14]

Ah, the Spectrum - rember it well - I had a 128 with heatsink (or was that the 48+) - the only computer I made money on when I sold it for £10 more than I paid for it! Had a bug when I was trying to create a budget program - there was a chip error that could not handle some string as I wanted to increase the entries to something more realistic than the intro book I borrowed from Central Library. My favourite game was on Sinclair User Mag - Banzai Bear or something similar - variation on Pacman where you electrocuted the 'ghosts' if you were near the edge of the board and they were too!

[alchresearch 214]

That heatsink or toastrack model is now THE collectors item. They've changed hands for over £150 recently.

[swarfendor437 14]

That heatsink or toastrack model is now THE collectors item. They've changed hands for over £150 recently.

 

D'OH! I paid around £55 from electronic boutique that later became Game at top of Debenhams - sold for £65!

[NUCAD 10]

hehe i got one of those. I guess its only gonna go up in price.

 

still got amiga512, dreamcast and megadrive too. Probs never use em but i guess as they all get rarer they will increase in value until one day we part ways.

[melthebell 863]

yeah theres a massive problem with the new "speccy" and only having a few keys, you cant play games that use a lot of keys obviously

[JFKvsNixon 11]

That heatsink or toastrack model is now THE collectors item. They've changed hands for over £150 recently.

 

When we upgraded from the rubber key to the Spectrum+, we did it via a kit form sold by Sincair. If I remember correctly the heatsink Spectrum was the Spectrum 128k.