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Court orders moribund ZX Spectrum reboot firm's directors to stump up £38k legal costs bill

Lee D Silver badge

Re: Two words for you ...

There's a guy who sells fit-into-your-Speccy conversion kits to turn the keyboard into a USB one (with an option to pass along the matrix data direct for some Speccy emulators, or emulate a PC keyboard for each press).

That, and a Raspberry Pi would do a much better job.

If you want handheld like this one was, just buy an old GP2X from about 10 years ago. 200+MHz dual-ARM chips run anything the Speccy used to, in standard ARM Linux binaries (e.g. fuse emulator, etc.) on a AA-battery-powered, portable device that stores on SD card, etc. and can even be touchscreen.

This thing is ten years behind even that, and never made it to production, in essence.

Hell, Google GPD Win if that's what you want (a portable retro-games-console rather than an accurate ZX Spectrum with-keyboard remake). £200 and it runs normal Windows 10 on Intel chips in your pocket, plays Steam games, has "handheld console" controls, and a keyboard in something the size of one of those foldable Nintendo DS things.

This thing was poor, outdated, not-speccy-like at all, and overpriced before you even get into whether it actually existed.

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