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In 2014, a £100 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega retro video game console was announced by Retro Computers and crowdfunded on IndieGogo, with the apparent backing of Clive Sinclair as an investor, [4] but without a full keyboard and manufactured in a limited capacity. [5] It was released on 24 April 2015. [6] Limited Edition Gold ZX Spectrum Vega Console
The ZX Spectrum Vega+ is a handheld game console based on the ZX Spectrum and designed by Rick Dickinson [3] as a follow-up to the ZX Spectrum Vega handheld TV game which was released in 2015. Only a small number of Vega+ machines were released, before Retro Computers (who manufactured the devices) was wound up.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:ZX Spectrum games. It includes titles that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Video games released on the ZX Spectrum without being ported to or from other video game platforms.
This is a sortable list of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. There are currently 1978 games in this incomplete list.. According to the 90th issue of GamesMaster, the ten best games released were (in descending order) Head Over Heels, Jet Set Willy, Skool Daze, Renegade, R-Type, Knight Lore, Dizzy, The Hobbit, The Way of the Exploding Fist, and Match Day II.
A running gag in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World features character Julie Powers being censored with the sound effects of the ZX Spectrum. The director of the film, Edgar Wright, who was a big fan of the Spectrum, stated that he always used to wait for Spectrum games to load when he was a teenager.
ZX Spectrum demos have been shown at multi-platform demoparties such as Assembly, and there used to be various Spectrum-only parties, such as Funtop in Moscow. The largest party today that regularly features the ZX Spectrum is Chaos Constructions in Saint Petersburg. Outside of Russia there is the Forever demoparty. [original research?]
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To compute the real ZX Spectrum colours, a measurement of the phase-amplitude shift of the chroma sub-carrier has to be performed, for each colour, by an oscilloscope on the ZX Spectrum's PAL output. [citation needed] In the ZX Spectrum encoding, the colour components are in the GRB (green, red, blue) order, rather than the more common RGB order.