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The company goes on to explain that it had to develop the software for the system from scratch after Mr Smith left the company. 'This problem is part of the legacy that the company inherited when our former Managing Director, Paul Andrews, and our former Technical Director, Chris Smith, resigned on April 8 last year.'

'We are taking immediate action to rectify this situation but realistically we now expect it to take a few weeks before we will be ready to ship the first units. 'During what we had expected would be final testing of the product prior to the first shipment, we discovered that the software for three of the user features, which had been announced for the product, had not yet been implemented. In a statement emailed to journalists, Luton-based Retro Computers set out reasons for the delay: The Vega+ is a hand-held console that will play all the 80s classics In the meantime, quoting the wonderful Terry Pratchett 'A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.''

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'We'll have another update later today, including news about the user manual and further clarity regarding delivery. 'We've had a high volume of emails from and we'll be getting back to genuine enquiries as soon as we can. WeвЂ™re here, we're not going anywhere - and your Vega+ IS real and IS coming to you. 'We're sorry for the outage вЂ“ and that the usual suspects are using our changeover to perpetuate panic. We have a whole new look and new branding,' it says. 'We are about to launch our new website and so itвЂ™s temporarily off line whilst we switch overвЂ¦ we hope to be back up and running later today. With all this amazing technology at my fingertips and i still love playing old spectrum games, ahh Dizzy you'll be played forever.Sir Clive Sinclair said last year: 'The present surge of interest in retro products inspired me to plan the Vega+ as a handy games console which can be played anywhere.'ДЄ message on the Retro Computers Limited website hits back at any concern regarding the production of the product. I sure hope this new one has better build quality, managed to kick the spectrum killing curse by emulaton now i can play my games without the worry of killing one lol. Maybe i'm the grim reaper of spectrums or they just plain hate me but i have never had one last more than a few years and that was back in the day. On my final spectrum +2 it just stopped working, one day i turned it on & got nothing at all. On my second +3 the power supply decided to fry my computer, one day i turned it on and got a corrupted screen and jailbars all over it, that was the last it ever worked. On my first +3 the mic input socket snapped off from normal use so i could no longer load any games as the disk drive died ages before that. In my lifetime i have owned 3 spectrums and all of them broke in some way from normal use. I wonder what the quality will be like of this new device? lets face it, the original spectrum hardware was not the highest build quality. The royalty is 10 per cent of the selling price per Vega computer. Retro said it was speaking with the owners of software rights to Spectrum games to donate a combined software royalty to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The Sinclair intellectual property is owned by a company called Sky In-Home Service (a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting), which grabbed the rights from Amstrad. It's launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise ВЈ100,000 for the manufacture of the first 1000 Sinclair Spectrum Vega computers in the UK, and to cover company running costs. Retro Computers, a Luton-based start-up of which Sinclair's company, Sinclair Research, is a shareholder, is behind the project. Its creators say that to their knowledge the device runs over 14,000 games developed during the Spectrum era.

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It comes with 1000 games built-in, but you can download more from the internet for free. The Sinclair Spectrum Vega is a new micro-controller computer, based on the influential Spectrum products of the 1980s, that will be sold for under ВЈ100. British video game legend Sir Clive Sinclair has returned with a crowdfunding campaign for a new ZX Spectrum computer that plays all the Sinclair Spectrum games.

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