Engadget takes a look at the Recreated Sinclair Spectrum.
With no embeddable games, the keyboard relies upon existing iOS and Android apps. Elite bundles a free app that launches with a short soundbite of the Spectrum loading sound and offers a number of free games, including exclusive rights to Chuckie Egg, and access to Sinclair BASIC. Other games can be unlocked via 79p ($1) in-app purchases. During my demo, I led Hen-House Harry through a number of levels and the gameplay was exactly like I remember it, as was the tactile feel of the rubberized keyboard. You don’t realize just how much you missed those 8-bit soundtracks and super-simple graphics.
I love that we live in an age where incredibly niche devices like this can be made and sold.
Sorry but this a joke…its a bluetooth keyboard only, in the guise of the Sinclair. Why bother?
It’s a joke – why not?
Because its a really odd keyboard. I recognize it from my computer book in seventh grade. Yes, we had books that taught us about computers… We used that when not programming basic on our Apple IIe and stared at the lame posters that proudly proclaimed that the computers won’t “byte”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thingstocomerecords/4076611450/
I don’t get it. The worst part about the speccy was the keyboard … by far.
And this is just the keyboard …
Edited 2015-03-17 06:56 UTC
I’d like to see him gut this and put his custom Speccy hardware in it…. he basically remade the Spectrum almost out of off the shelf parts. Odd for an American to do something like that, as the Speccy bombed in the US (Timex-Sinclair 2068), but, cool non the less.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcwcyL9LgM
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBZHjzwdQQ
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8isV5rijA
I agree with you guys. Should’ve put a speccy in the keyboard, given it a bus broken out, given it a modern DVI output instead of AV, an SD card and wifi or ethernet or something for purchases if you *MUST* have a commercial device.
I’d pay for that if it had the rear bus port so I can feed a kempston, micro-drive or DivIDE.
Yeah no. Sorry, keeping with actual hardware that does something.
P.S. Fake scanlines please. MiST and MiniMig do this for several years. Actually.. for that matter why not a MiniMig core and a custom case? Yeah nah, cute but yawn-worthy.