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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 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. My Facebook group... www.facebook.com/groups/thespectrumretrogames
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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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