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News ZX Spectrum Next rips through its crowdfunding goal

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    What's interesting is that no money from the campaign is being used for it, and everyone's working for free. Also, the Oliver Twins and Codemasters (who each own 50% of the rights) have jointly agreed to donate all proceeds as and when they sell the game to non-backers to charity, which is jolly good of 'em.
     
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  2. Speed

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    That is very good of them! Part of me wonders whether the failure of the kickstarter has something to do with it. I would be shocked if there wasn't a few "higher ups" at Codemasters who were very fond of the original games.
     
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    I started out with a ZX81 in 1981 or 1982 then moved on to the Speccie. I spent waaaay too many hours playing games on the Speccie back in the 80's, from the original through to the +2 before moving on to the Amiga. Happy days!! I'm not sure I'd splash out on the Next though. I do like a bit of retro gaming once in a flood but not enough to justify the spend. I still have the ZX81 and Spectrum 48k in the attic at my Mum's house, with a load of games for the Speccie and a load of the old magazines you could buy with the ZX Basic programs/games you had to input on the ZX81 :)
     
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