The first three are used to expand the input options for games with more complex controls, the M button calls up a menu, for use in-game, from where you can save your progress in a snapshot style, and also access the virtual keyboard. Beneath those buttons are four tiny buttons marked A, B, C and M. The main four buttons are positioned rather strangely, in a 2x2 square pattern rather than the more traditional diamond layout used by most joypad controllers. Another emulator feature that improves the Speccy gaming experience.
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Games can be saved, snapshot style, and carried on later. F is for FIRE, S is for SELECT, and everything else, confusingly, is basically meaningless in this context. These, too, are modelled after the famous rubber keys, right down to the markings. Modelled to look a bit like the iconic 48k Spectrum, it has directional buttons to the left, and a variety of inputs to the right. It's about the size of a four-finger Kit Kat, should you want a scientific measurement.
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The Vega is a small, flat rectangular controller, not a full keyboard. With two "new" Spectrum products competing for attention, it seems many are confused as to which is which - or even if they're the same thing.
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It's important to note that the Vega is a handheld device, and has nothing to do with the Recreated ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard from Elite Systems, which also launches in a few weeks. £100 plus delivery from official website.Is this a genuine new Sinclair product, or a cleverly packaged emulator, ruthlessly designed to tweak my middle-aged yearning? ZX Vega I can feel the nostalgia juices rising, but also a wave of scepticism. Even the box, with its black cardboard sleeve and rainbow corner flash, has been designed to mimic that of the original 48k home computer.
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I'm holding a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega, the crowdfunded plug-and-play gaming device produced with the involvement of Sir Clive Sinclair himself. Back in 2012, when retro gamers were celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, if you'd told me that just three years later we'd be seeing not one but two new hardware launches claiming to carry on the Speccy name, I wouldn't have believed you.