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  ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 06:58 -0700
    Re: ZX Vega launched "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2015-07-19 21:39 +0100
      Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 14:58 -0700
        Re: ZX Vega launched deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-07-20 06:46 +0000
          Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 00:41 -0700
        Re: ZX Vega launched Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2015-07-21 18:46 +0100
          Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 22:23 -0700
            Re: ZX Vega launched "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2015-07-22 23:16 +0100
              Re: ZX Vega launched deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-07-23 18:18 +0000
                Re: ZX Vega launched "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2015-07-23 19:45 +0100
          Re: ZX Vega launched "Ian Bland" <blank@8393iiiioooo.corm> - 2015-07-25 22:34 +0100
            Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 11:47 -0700
              Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 22:55 -0700
                Re: ZX Vega launched Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 12:31 -0700
            Re: ZX Vega launched Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2015-08-31 17:57 +0100

#3857 — ZX Vega launched

It has been a Good week for the ZX Vega team.
They had their launch party for backers at the beginning of the week. Later a limited number of bloggers and journalists were invited to watch the first units roll off the assembly line at Nottingham and try them out.

Best report I've found is the one in this link from 80snostalgia.com

http://www.80snostalgia.com/zx-vega-hands-on/

It explains how the menus and keyboard comes together. It is creating quite a stir.

-- 
G.

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#3858

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 06:58:14 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Geoff Wearmouth:

> Best report I've found is the one in this link from 80snostalgia.com
> 
> http://www.80snostalgia.com/zx-vega-hands-on/
> 
> It explains how the menus and keyboard comes together. It is creating quite a stir.

That actually makes it look pretty good.  I'm still not sure about the
D-pad, though - where's QAOP?

Chris


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#3859

Yes I'm impressed. Each of the thousand games has a definition file that maps the normal keys to those on the Vega.
So Q, A, O, P are mapped to the D-Pad for instance. 
Adventures use the alpha keys which are grouped in fours and shifted with the right arrow. People found it fast.
You can create definition files for your own programs or those downloaded from WoS and send them in so I imagine quite a community effort will be born. 
The thousand bundled games are currently being assessed by the board of film censors and once approved will be revealed and the machines will ship.

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G.

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#3860

Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I'm impressed. Each of the thousand games has a definition file that
> maps the normal keys to those on the Vega.
> So Q, A, O, P are mapped to the D-Pad for instance. 
> Adventures use the alpha keys which are grouped in fours and shifted with
> the right arrow. People found it fast.
> You can create definition files for your own programs or those downloaded
> from WoS and send them in so I imagine quite a community effort will be born. 
> The thousand bundled games are currently being assessed by the board of
> film censors and once approved will be revealed and the machines will ship.
> 
> --
> G.

So they actually sorted licensing and royalties for the 1000 games?

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Yup.

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#3861

I haven't been following too closely but I expect many copyright holders will go along with the default Great Ormond Street Hospital arrangement. 
The Vega team did say that they had got some big licence holders on board at the last minute so it will be an interesting week. They can't print the box labels or back labels until they get that classification number.

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#3875

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:

> The thousand bundled games are currently being assessed by the board of film censors

*snort*

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Duncan Snowden.

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#3876

Back in 1984 the British Board of Film Censors gave the ZX Spectrum game "Jack The Ripper" an 18 certificate

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/j/JackTheRipper.jpg

Nowadays the Pan European Game Information body (PEGI)  need to approve the thousand bundled games for the Vega  to receive a certificate.

http://www.pegi.info/en/index/

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G.

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#3880

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:23:37 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Geoff Wearmouth:

> Back in 1984 the British Board of Film Censors gave the ZX Spectrum game "Jack The Ripper" an 18 certificate

And there was me thinking Mortal Kombat was the first 18-rated game...

Chris


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#3881

"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:23:37 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC Geoff Wearmouth:
> 
>> Back in 1984 the British Board of Film Censors gave the ZX Spectrum game
>> "Jack The Ripper" an 18 certificate
> 
> And there was me thinking Mortal Kombat was the first 18-rated game...
> 
> Chris
> 

Mortal Kombat wasn't even 18 rated. Or rated at all, in fact.


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#3883

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:18:55 +0000 (UTC) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC deKay:

> "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:23:37 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> > to MC Geoff Wearmouth:
> > 
> >> Back in 1984 the British Board of Film Censors gave the ZX Spectrum game
> >> "Jack The Ripper" an 18 certificate
> > 
> > And there was me thinking Mortal Kombat was the first 18-rated game...
> 
> Mortal Kombat wasn't even 18 rated. Or rated at all, in fact.

Pretty sure the Amiga version had a BBFC 18 rating.  Can't find any
images proving that, but I did find this:
http://s.emuparadise.org/DC-PAL-Covers/Mortal%20Kombat%20Gold%20PAL%20DC-back.jpg

It's a later edition admittedly, but it has the rating.

Chris


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|  http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk  |
| Your Sinclair: A Celebration              |
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#3886

Duncan Snowden wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
> Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The thousand bundled games are currently being assessed by the board
>> of film censors
>
> *snort*

You never hear people say, "It's a free country" any more. Funny that. 

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#3890

The news today is that they have received a PEGI rating so the ZX Vega machine and software is suitable for any of us aged 7 and over.
Packaging can be fully printed and production samples tested. So expect delivery mid-August.

 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega#activity

That's about the same delay as the Recreated ZX Spectrum from Elite which ships August 13th according to Amazon.

-- 
G.

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#3895

Well the first batch of a thousand were sent out last Friday and were well received. Some Ultimate titles were on and also Electronics Art's Spindizzy. Full list of games is on the face ache site.
The second batch goes out tomorrow.

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#3904

The second batch has gone out this weekend. Some have arrived. 
There have been some inflated prices on eBay and SMS Electronics have revived their eBay account to sell second batch Vegas at £99.99 Buy-It-Now

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-Vega-Limited-Edition-Second-Production-Run-/221852976672?hash=item33a777c620

Feedback is from a year ago when they were buying a lot of glue :-)

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G.

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#3939

On 25/07/2015 22:34, Ian Bland wrote:

> You never hear people say, "It's a free country" any more. Funny that.

Probably because it hasn't been for quite some time. But back to the 
Vega. There's a good chance there will be three to four thousand of them 
people's homes by the end of the year, all equipped with ULAplus. As you 
can imagine I'm very happy about that.

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