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On 16/07/2018 at 06:17, SeanR said:

 

exhibit 1, m'lud a retweet

 

 

another retweet

 

 

retweets cauldwell

 

 

 

 

 

coincidentally I'm blocked by @florinthedwarf @zxspectrumdev and @sinclairzxvega for asking questions about the zx vega plus...

 

Was it Jonathan Cauldwell that posted a picture of a Vega+ (alongside a cocktail and beach or pool background) and while he was on holiday, with the words like "look what I'm testing while on holiday"? 

 

I can't be arsed looking through this thread, but someone did make a tweet like that in order to prove the trolls wrong. Except it was about 2 years ago and there's still no Vega+.

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2 minutes ago, Gabe said:

 

Is it just me or does the perspective on that green border look wonky?

 

you mean like the way it seems to bleed over the bottom of the edge of the screen?

 

also: look at the two glasses. the whole thing is leaning away from the camera, on the right hand side.

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3 minutes ago, SeanR said:

to be fair to Cauldwell, this tweet

 

 

is not untrue.

 

apart from the "not long now folks" part, obv.

 

Their vagueness was ridiculous.

 

 

its "not long" to the next ice age, give or take 20,000 years

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3 hours ago, Bluejam said:

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May

he posts that in May, but when he 'came out' late last year, he says that his opinion of the vega+ at the Nottingham event in April was:

 

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this wasn't a product that met my expectations, and any reviews of the product would be devastating. There were hardware issues ranging from annoying to serious. 

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53 minutes ago, Gregory Wolfe said:

Did anyone here actually back this?

 

I never grew up with a Spectrum so there's no nostalgic attachment, but I was following this and projects like it. I didn't back the Vega, but I pledged £1 towards the Next just to support something that wasn't looking like such a trainwreck. ;) 

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4 minutes ago, Qazimod said:

 

I never grew up with a Spectrum so there's no nostalgic attachment, but I was following this and projects like it. I didn't back the Vega, but I pledged £1 towards the Next just to support something that wasn't looking like such a trainwreck. ;) 

 

I didn't have a Spectrum, I had a C64, but having backed the Crash annual (partially in the hope there'd be a Zzap annual, which I have also backed), I did also back the Next to the tune of an accelerated, wi-fi capable, fully cased machine. I had no interest in the Vega. I'm actually a bit depressed that no one wants to talk much about the Next but it seems everyone is engaging in the scandal created by these dirty little chancers. It actually feels more like an OT subject than a retro one to me.

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I haven't funded it but have followed the whole debacle with morbid interest. I had a Spectrum back in the day which I loved, but I've never really wanted to revisit Skool Daze or Atic Atac in recent years.

 

That and the fact that this thing always looked like every other generic handheld, but with a rainbow sticker in the corner. There's so many devices that can do what this was supposed to do and much more.

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It is interesting to follow crowd-funded projects because people are more eager to find out the truth, so we learn more than we would with a 'traditional' company failing.

 

For a long time I followed the disaster that was the Coolest Cooler on Kickstarter (it raised over $10m if I recall) and it was fascinating, I recommend reading up on it. There was one aspect of that product (yes, there was a product so it is instantly better than this) was that the creator - despite not delivering any items - decided to add an 'improvement' that nobody asked for, which added more significant delays - and tried to sell it as a good thing. It was a PR mess. But yeah, go read about it.

 

This is a more salacious tale, certainly.

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I think the Peachy Printer (started in 2013) was worse.  There you have one of the two creators on camera admitting he took a lion share of the money ~ $324,000 or so , and used it to build his house.  And to this day not much has happened about it. No one got anything , and no action against him seems to have happened.

 

Imagine being told what you backed is coming over and over again, only to one day get this bizarre campaign update:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d-printer-and-sc/posts/1572573

 

 

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I’ve only ever backed books on crowd funding sites, but I have to admit that the Vega saga has had me hooked.  I just can’t work out if it’s going to end in shipped units,  nervous breakdown, jail time or a lynching.  Or maybe everyone will get bored and it will just fizzle out...

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3 minutes ago, Mr Monday said:

I’ve only ever backed books on crowd funding sites, but I have to admit that the Vega saga has had me hooked.  I just can’t work out if it’s going to end in shipped units,  nervous breakdown, jail time or a lynching.  Or maybe everyone will get bored and it will just fizzle out...

 

Where would the money come from to produce 5000 shipped units?

 

They are hundreds of thousands in debt with no product/ assets, so much so they tried to pay their lawyer bill by saying we will give you 60% of all FUTURE sales, after backers machines.

 

Strangely, they said no.

 

 

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