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Handheld Gaming Console — the Tragedy of Sinclair ZX

In March 2016, we wrote about the Retro Computer’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum handheld game machine—The Vega+. If you had any interest or involvement with computers in the eighties and nineties, chances are you heard of, and probably owned, a device from Sinclair. The Cambridge-based Clive Sinclair and his many re-named companies developed famous low-cost, low-power but amazingly useful devices for ...

Robert Dow

In March 2016, we wrote about the Retro Computer’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum handheld game machine—The Vega+. If you had any interest or involvement with computers in the eighties and nineties, chances are you heard of, and probably owned, a device from Sinclair. The Cambridge-based Clive Sinclair and his many re-named companies developed famous low-cost, low-power but amazingly useful devices for word processing, games, and audio. And at the tender and restless age of 75, he released yet another device: the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+; or so we all thought. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ was to be based on Sir
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