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hardware_name  = The Spectrum|
designer        = [[Retro Games]]|
designer        = [[Retro Games]]|
manufacturer    = [[Koch Media]]|
manufacturer    = [[Plaion]]|
cpu            = 1.2 Ghz Dual-core Cortex-A7|
cpu            = 1.2 Ghz Dual-core Cortex-A7|
gpu            = 500 Mhz Dual-core Mali-400 ARM|
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Saboteur! Remastered]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Durell Software]], [[Incognito Games]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1986
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Shovel Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Pat Morita Team]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2021
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Skool Daze]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Microsphere Computer Services]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Snake Escape]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Einar Saukas]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2016
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Spellbound]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[David Jones]], [[Ed Hickman]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Starquake]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Stephen Crow]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Starstrike II]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Realtime Games Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1986
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[El Stompo]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Stonechat Productions]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2014
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Stonkers]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Imagine]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[TCQ]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Amaweks]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2022
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Target: Renegade]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Ocean Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Technician Ted: The Mega-Mix]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Steve Marsden]], [[David Cooke]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1986
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Tenebra]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Haplo]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2022
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Trashman]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[New Generation Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Way of the Exploding Fist]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Beam Software]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Wheelie]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Microsphere Computer Services]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Where Time Stood Still]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Denton Designs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
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Revision as of 18:46, 25 October 2024

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The Spectrum
Designer Retro Games
Manufacturer Plaion
CPU 1.2 Ghz Dual-core Cortex-A7
Graphics 500 Mhz Dual-core Mali-400 ARM
Memory 512MB
Media built-in media
Released Europe: November 22, 2024
Added to Museum Not yet

The Spectrum is a video game console by Retro Games.

It is a full-size system with a replica of the original ZX Spectrum keyboard.

The Spectrum can be switched to load into full mode, or the carousel menu system.

Features

It contains forty-eight built-in games. The Fuse emulator by the Fuse team runs BASIC and the included games.

The power is provided by a standard mini USB plug and wall adapter, and the video is output through HDMI.

Technical specifications

The system is more powerful than the system on which it is designed.

It uses an Allwinner R16 "system on a chip". The system specifications are as follows:

  • 1.2 Ghz dual-core Cortex-A7 CPU (central processing unit)
  • 500 Mhz dual-core Mali-400 ARM GPU (graphics processing unit)
  • 512MB RAM (random access memory)
  • 512MB Flash storage

Since it uses a common architecture, the system can be modified to add additional games, simply using the supplied mini-USB cable and open-source software.

Games included on The Spectrum

The following table lists the games included in The Spectrum.

Title Developer Release
Alien Girl: Skirmish Edition Javier Fopiani 2021
Ant Attack Spaceman 1983
Army Moves Dinamic Software 1986
Auf Wiedersehen Monty Gremlin Graphics Software 1987
Avalon ST Software 1984
Bobby Bearing Robert Figgins, Trevor Figgins 1986
Cosmic Payback Connosoft 2020
Devwill Too Amaweks 2020
Exolon Dragonware Games, Linel 1987
Fairlight Bo Jangeborg 1985
Firelord John Cumming 1986
Football Manager 2 Addictive Games 1988
Freddy Hardest Dinamic Software 1987
The Great Escape Denton Designs 1986
Head over Heels Ocean Software 1987
Highway Encounter Vortex Software 1985
The Hobbit Beam Software 1982
Horace Goes Skiing Beam Software, Psion Software 1982
Jack the Nipper Gremlin Graphics Software 1986
Knot in 3D New Generation Software 1983
The Lords of Midnight Mike Singleton, Chris Wild 1983
Manic Miner Matthew Smith 1983
Match Day II Ocean Software 1987
Movie Imagine Software 1986
Nodes of Yesod Keith Robinson 1985
Penetrator Beam Software 1982
Phantis Dinamic Software 1987
Pheenix Martin Ward 1983
Pyracurse Mark Goodall, Keith Prosser 1986
Quazatron Graftgold 1986
Robin of the Wood Marc Wilding 1985
Saboteur! Remastered Durell Software, Incognito Games 1986
Shovel Adventure Pat Morita Team 2021
Skool Daze Microsphere Computer Services 1984
Snake Escape Einar Saukas 2016
Spellbound David Jones, Ed Hickman 1985
Starquake Stephen Crow 1985
Starstrike II Realtime Games Software 1986
El Stompo Stonechat Productions 2014
Stonkers Imagine 1984
TCQ Amaweks 2022
Target: Renegade Ocean Software 1988
Technician Ted: The Mega-Mix Steve Marsden, David Cooke 1986
Tenebra Haplo 2022
Trashman New Generation Software 1984
The Way of the Exploding Fist Beam Software 1985
Wheelie Microsphere Computer Services 1983
Where Time Stood Still Denton Designs 1988
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