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Post by spannernick on Sept 15, 2024 21:40:16 GMT
  It will use the same carousel as on THEA500 Mini, THE400 Mini so like a Android thing.  It looks like as well it will uses THEC64 Maxi board inside it too, like THE400 Mini did, if you look at the back of THE Spectrum it has a USB Pots and the HDMI port next to it so RGL are just remaking THE400 Mini over and over in a new case so it looks like a new machine and then changing the emulator the carousel uses by putting the Retroarch core in a wrapper so it can be run by itself without Retroarch, that how THE400 Mini emulator works. The rubber keys keyboard will be a USB Keyboard and plug into THEC64 PCB Main Board. My THE Spectrum Facebook group... www.facebook.com/groups/thespectrumretrogamesWhen you buy these do you buy it because it looks like a ZX Spectrum 48k and do not care what is software looks like, I am the opposite, I do not want to buy a product that has the same GUI(Carousel) that looks like there last machine because to me it feels like I am using the same machine just loading different games with a different emulator. |
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Post by vic2020ian on Sept 17, 2024 11:29:05 GMT
Having the quirky keyboard is handy if you want to play with Spectrum basic, otherwise it could have been another mini.
I would have bought a 400 maxi or 800 maxi but not likely to buy this one.
Commodore was always better so I am biased ;-)
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Post by spannernick on Sept 17, 2024 12:17:20 GMT
Having the quirky keyboard is handy if you want to play with Spectrum basic, otherwise it could have been another mini. I would have bought a 400 maxi or 800 maxi but not likely to buy this one. Commodore was always better so I am biased ;-) Yes THEC64 is better because its carousel is different and has its own character, these machines don't and are just a copy of the last one and it should have 100 games like the ZX Vega did, could be because they could not fit them on the THEC64 nand. I do not see now RGL ever updating THEC64 now, if they do I be surprised, does not make them any money. |
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Post by c64stuff on Sept 18, 2024 22:14:26 GMT
They should have just thrown a raspberry pi zero 2w in these newer minis. It's only $15 retail so they probably could have bought them even cheaper wholesale, and the 2W is just about as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3B+, so it could run most emulators into the 16 bit home computer or console era just fine. Plus there'd be far more efficiently of the software and a more diverse selection of software to install on it.
A few USB hubs and a power button hooked up to it in a custom case for the platform it's emulating and I'd pay $75 or $80 for that. Same with the Maxi versions with working keyboards. $125 would be worth it just for the keyboard and case along with the streamlined front end GUI even though it's only got a $15 pi inside.
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Post by spannernick on Oct 1, 2024 12:31:32 GMT
When you buy these do you buy it because it looks like a ZX Spectrum 48k and do not care what is software looks like, I am the opposite, I do not want to buy a product that has the same GUI(Carousel) that looks like there last machine because to me it feels like I am using the same machine just loading different games with a different emulator.
But you can put it into a basic mode so it boots into the ZX Spectrum Basic Screen so like THEC64 Maxi Classic Mode, they should add that to THEA500 Mini (so you only see the Amiga Disk Screen and it boots the disk image you have added to it) and THE400 Mini (Atari Basic or a game Cartridge booting automatically like you have one plugged in to it) too.
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Post by mobluse on Nov 16, 2024 4:12:08 GMT
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