Leave your spectrum memories as they are, trying to recreate them will only disappoint, things have moved on far too much to get any lasting enjoyment from this unit

Yes most of the games are absolutely dire in comparison to what exists now. I never owned a C64, but looking on YouTube videos shows just how much more advanced it was graphically and sonically. The ZX Spectrum won on price easily compared to BBC Micro and C64. I loved the 80s, there was no Internet to cheat with, you had to work out everything yourself and there were 100's of different computing platforms, Jupiter Ace, Tandy TRS 80, Sord M5, the Japanese MSX computers which tried to form a compatible platform amongst manufacturers. Then the 90's happened and it was just PC, now we're back to multiple platforms but they're all compatible with each other.

Youtube, social media etc has ruined computing for me. Now everyone who can watch a YouTube video can garner the skills, there's no wow factor in anything anymore. You only have to go on Reddit and there's skillful artists, musicians and everyone is so meh about everything now when they see something that was impressive it's not anymore.

The real skill is still in the unknown, creating on the fringe and still not many people do that. The real people in this world that get credit aren't the ones that deserve it, such as actors, celebrities etc. Forget Stephen Fry, the real genuises are scientists. Almost no one knows the names of the people that created what we have now.

Alan Turing - you've heard of him, obviously a well known genius
Ivan Sutherland - nope you won't have heard of him, genius
Alan Kay - What about him, genius, object oriented programming and windowed operating system innovator
Douglas Englebart - What a genius, a total genius. The Mother of All Demos is all you need to see, also inventor of the computer mouse in 1963, prototyped in 1964
Ken Thompson & Denis Ritchie - Inventors of Unix and C programming language
Bent Stumpe - Touchscreen inventor

Just some of the people who invented what we have now not some 40-50 years ago. I thought I'd give them some credit.

It's a basic Bluetooth keyboard that looks like a spectrum, hardly a recreated spectrum!

ohhhhh the good old specy! Remember getting my 48k one in the 80's and buying it from Woolworths for £130. It outdone the ZX81 by a mile with the graphics and sound and will never forget waiting outside the shop the day a new game was released. All very costly thinking about it but was the start of gaming as we know it today.

far more realistic price- if they'd priced it like this from the start, or even around £19.99, it would have flown off the shelves

Check reviews on Amazon first - think there are some issues !

And the current statement from Elite systems seems to imply the legal wrangling has been solved.

Thing is, I still can't find a complete list of all the games available, or if it's only the list on the webpage, that's not very much. I like the idea of it's portability as much as anything, but if the games aren't there, not a lot of point.

There seem to be some problem with the app. Someone mentions the internet archive (the Wayback Machine) presumably as a way of finding a version of the app. Other possibilities are oldversion.com . These may be useful if the games _were_ on the webpage.

Wonderful (in a rose tinted spectacles sort of way) - but why would anyone make or buy such a machine?

Worldofspectrum has a link to the app

The app to unlock it is back on the Play store - it looks like once it is unlocked, you can either use the app or one of the other Spectrum emulators that support the Recreated Spectrum such as Fuse.

I've ordered for a bit of nostalgic Cromecast Spectrum playing and the hopes that it will be used going forward as a Bluetooth keyboard for the smart TV - it looks way cooler than the generic one I'm using at the moment!

Leave your spectrum memories as they are, trying to recreate them will only disappoint, things have moved on far too much to get any lasting enjoyment from this unit