If you backed the return of Sinclair's ZX Spectrum Vega+ then The Inquirer has good news for you, it should be arriving in the near future. It ships with roughly 1000 retro games installed and with an SD card you can add any of your favourites you can use an SD card to add them. The Vega+ can hook up to an external display and keyboard, not just to game but also to help if you plan on coding on the device. Once all the backers have received theirs you will begin to see the Vega+ for sale, so you did not miss out if you did not back it. The Inquirer was happy to note that games now launch in mere seconds as opposed to the minutes the original required.
"Our backers will be getting their machines first, before the press, before the shops. It’s because of them that we’re here and we owe it to them to make sure they get their Vega first," explained Suzanne Martin of Retro Computers, the company behind the project."
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I seriously can’t wait for
I seriously can’t wait for this, best computer ever created 🙂
And I seriously hate those
And I seriously hate those retro color clash and monochromic-like graphical travesty which Speccy was infamous for. Games with scrolling backgrounds are a pain with Speccy also (and even some games with scrolling that could not port properly was changed to flip screen mode). 😛
You haven’t tasted hell if
You haven’t tasted hell if you haven’t played a multi load game on a Spectrum 48K+.
48K not enough for the latest game? No problem. We will be loading one level at a time. OK? OK.
Please Start The Tape.
(1st level loaded….played… beat it)
Please Start The Tape
(2nd level loaded….played…lost)
&^%$^#$%&$*&^*( …..rewinding the tape to the position where the first level starts loading and starting the tape……)
I had superhuman reflexes back in the time. In a small screen of 256X192 pixels I could maneuver between dozens of bullets and aliens for hours. Now? If I try to play a platform game on my screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 and there is one small 8×8 pixels bullet, I am going strait to it for some strange reason. 😀
ZX Spectrum was the worst
ZX Spectrum was the worst gaming platform but…
… stutter, tearing and input lag were at least predictable.
We didn’t had LCD monitors in
We didn’t had LCD monitors in the 80s and we cared about good games, not if we could apply ultra quality settings or enable adaptive sync. Stutter, tearing was easily ignored, if there was any, and input lag was 0.000001. The only problem with the Spectrum was the color attributes(only two colors where allowed in an 8×8 square) and the limited color palette (8 colors + brightness level).
Spectrum was a great gaming platform back then, that in it’s final years managed to have games that a few years before, where considered impossible to be created for that machine.
“The only problem with the
“The only problem with the Spectrum was…”
I wish, but really?
UK developers were magicians, though.
Yes, those fond memories of
Yes, those fond memories of slow jerky scrolling, flickering sprites, small view-ports (making the gaming area look even smaller), color clash, monochromic-like graphics, near-invisible bullet syndrome, etc….
Thought it had a vega in it.
Thought it had a vega in it.
Seriously John, have you heard anything recent about am4 mobos? I keep checking but to no avail.
Just a few more photos from
Just a few more photos from Gigabyte mobos. I don’t expect to see anything interesting this year.
Current AM4 motherboards only
Current AM4 motherboards only supports AMD’s Bristol Ridge APUs but do not support Zen at all. Also the memory support is up to DDR4-2133 only (any faster memory modules will be reduced to DDR4-2133 speeds). Examples of AM4 motherboard specifications found around the web below…
– HP Willow http://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c05254568
– ASUS A320M-C http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/A320M-C/E12133_A320M-C_V2_UM_web.pdf
You will not find that ASUS A320M-C motherboard on the main products website since its will be most likely an OEM-only motherboard. Also example review of AMD’s A12-9800 with ASUS A320M-C motherboard here http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/hothot/1028597.html even though the memory module used is DDR4-2400, however the performance results (especially the integrated graphics tests) seems to indicate running at lower memory speeds resulting in lower graphical performance than previous generation Kaveri APU.