The Indiegogo campaign to fund production costs on the Sinclair Spectrum Vega is underway, and so far has attracted more than £27k of its £100k target.
The device, based on the hugely successful Spectrum computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair back in the early 1980s, will come equipped with around 1,000 games built-in (and with enough memory to download any others that are subsequently made available). The pitch boasts that, to their knowledge, the device will run over 14,000 games.
Retro Computers Ltd (for which Sir Clive's company - Sinclair Research Ltd - is a shareholder) are marketing the game, and they're also proposing to make arrangements with the owners of software rights to make a combined royalty donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Meanwhile Sky In-Home Service Ltd holds the license to the product after getting the Spectrum rights via Amstrad, although permissions are in place according to the campaign pitch. The device is now a fully working prototype, and the funds are needed for production costs and for company overheads.