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Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop

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"Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Anyway, as I was saying before the off topic bits, the ability to run 
> emulation and still have a Windows laptop is surely better then 
> attempting to make a full speccy laptop. Withe the best good will in 
> the world, the market for a dedicated Spectrum laptop would by now be 
> so small that to make one the investment costs would never get covered 
> I'd imagine.

I don't know. Who would have thought that a ZX Spectrum would be viable 
today, even the Vega with so few keys. And yet they expect it to sell!

I was thinking more, though, about the recreated one. It seems so good a 
copy that there's not much added to the original. (Some inbuilt 
software, different ROM images, maybe and, of all things, bluetooth so 
that the old dead-flesh keyboard which was much criticised at the time 
as a keyboard can be used for the very purpose of typing into other 
devices!)

If the recreated one will sell then how about adding a battery and a 
screen? (Rhetorical, already discussed. Just reiterating my thought 
processes.) A 256 by 192 screen has very low resolution and might be 
very cheap. In fact, as pixels are so small today such a screen could be 
too small and it might be cheaper to source a screen that has double or 
four times the resolution.

IMO the main problems with what you suggest, using a normal laptop, are 
1) the cost and 2) the lack of a preprinted keyboard. An Arm-based 
emulator should be much cheaper than a normal laptop. And to program the 
Spectrum in Basic one really needs to see what keys result in which 
keywords and symbols.

> It was hard enough with the Sam machine as we all know. I was quite 
> heavily involved in the funding and testing of development versions of 
> that, but I do not regret it at all. I learned a lot.
> Back then of course i still hade sight enough to use such things.

I hadn't heard of the Sam machine. From looking it up it looks expensive 
compared to the Spectrum. I don't know if it was or not.

James

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No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 11:19 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:00 +0000
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-07 07:58 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:37 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-08 07:19 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:20 +0200
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:33 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:44 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:29 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:34 +0100
          Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-09 11:54 +0100
            Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:55 +0100
              Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2015-09-13 17:46 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:38 +0200
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:40 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-10 09:23 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 16:16 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-19 19:41 +0000

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