Huh? (ZX Speccy Vega crowdfunding)

[vcoleiro1]

Already a thread on it, although I can't blame anyone for not seeing it.  The title seriously needs to be changed -> http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17420-huh/?hl=vega/URL]

Note: This was from a from duplicate thread - Binky

 

[Asmo]

The decision to go with a D-Pad for a machine that was originally keyboard only (and for which many, many games were created with this in mind) has caused head scratching elsewhere -

http://stevewetherill.com/2014/12/03/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega/

http://reverttosaved.com/2014/12/03/the-questions-no-ones-asking-about-the-sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega/

I thought it had the option for an external keyboard, apparently not - so no Adventure games (without the use of an onscreen keyboard), no Corridors of Genon, no Elite - and so on. Even Ant Attack could be awkward. Composite only too.

So the hardware might be super-accurate, but if so much of the software is almost unuseable, to what advantage? Maybe you could take one apart and put it's guts into an actual Spectrum case if there's a way to attach a keyboard controller, although you could pick up a dead Speccy and a fresh keyboard membrane (or two, you may need them...) and a cheap Raspberry Pi (HDMI out ahoy!), and attempt something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/m0ZHmZkv3CU?feature=oembed
There are quite a few other examples out there along the same lines.