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Indiegogo lawyer asks ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Where's the cash?

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Forgive the incredulity, but I'm quite surprised this got to this situation.

I can remember helping my brother play certain Spectrum 48K games, such as Manic Miner and a weird game involving an oversized gorilla. This was via decent 14" Sony Trinitron TV. And it was tough even with this size screen.

So, how come loads of people pledged money for a handheld device with a screen not much bigger than a mobile phones?

Even with a high PPI count, the screen would still be so small, that the "pixel perfect" requirements of playing some Speccy games would really make this device almost impossible to play.

Sure, it will allow some older members to recount their mis-spent youth...but unless you could output the video to a larger screen, this device surely is just going to end up as a display item on some peoples sideboard (those of a "certain age" know what THAT is)...whilst for others, it'll either be consigned to the bottom of some drawer, or re-sold on fleabay for a healthy profit.

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