{"id":2705,"date":"2017-01-01T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:38:24","slug":"handheld-zx-spectrum-pain-in-buttons-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/handheld-zx-spectrum-pain-in-buttons-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Handheld ZX Spectrum &#8216;pain in buttons&#8217; &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38415116\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/93105353_mediaitem93105352.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The makers of a handheld ZX Spectrum console say the device is now set for a February launch following delays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The makers of a handheld ZX Spectrum console which has the support of Sir Clive Sinclair have blamed issues with the device&#8217;s buttons for its delayed launch.<\/p>\n<p>The retro gaming console received almost \u00a3500,000 ($0.6m) in crowdfunding earlier this year and was due to ship in September.<\/p>\n<p>Retro Gaming Computers Limited has told the BBC the first batch will now ship in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It features 1,000 pre-installed games.<\/p>\n<p>The firm had said in <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega-plus-console-games#\/updates\">an update on its Indiegogo page<\/a> titled A Pain In The Buttons that testing had been &#8220;trickier than previously suspected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Many backers <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega-plus-console-games#\/comments\">leaving comments on the fundraising page<\/a> had requested more information about what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expected teething trouble, being a new product, but we should be kept up to speed on all developments as after all we are the investors\/backers and have made the project possible in the first place,&#8221; wrote one by the name of John Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38415116\">Handheld ZX Spectrum &#8216;pain in buttons&#8217; &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of a handheld ZX Spectrum console say the device is now set for a February launch following delays. The makers of a handheld ZX Spectrum console which has the support of Sir Clive Sinclair have blamed issues with the device&#8217;s buttons for its delayed launch. The retro gaming console received almost \u00a3500,000 ($0.6m) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}