CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA UPDATE
CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA SERIES
CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA TV

CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA SERIES

After raising a record sum on Indiegogo, a long series of broken promises and missed dates, and a final loss of patience from the crowdfunding site, it has emerged that the owner of the Sinclair and ZX brands is to withdraw the right to use them from the console.

RCL insists it never refuses a request for a refund.ItвЂ™s not a good time to be a backer of the crowdfunded Sinclair ZX Vega retro console.

We have seen screenshots that seem to show Ball has since been blocked from commenting on the company's Facebook updates after posting underneath to request his refund. These have all gone unanswered.'Д«all added that he had posted 'an offer to RCL of donating our refunds to charity (guide dogs for the blind in my case) and provide proof of the donation,' which he said was not answered either. I have contacted them through every method I can on multiple occasions politely asking for a refund. The Indiegogo page shows no outward sign of having been frozen for breaking the site's terms and conditions thanks to RCL's lack of updates, though wannabe backers can no longer sign up to pledge ВЈ105 for a Vega+.Д«acker Tony Ball told us: 'In February this year I became aware of all the legal stuff, saw how RCL were conducting themselves in terms of communicating and, not really believing they would deliver the Vega+, I started to request refunds.

CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA UPDATE

Indie-no-gogoДЇive thousand Indiegogo backers who collectively pledged ВЈ513,000 to RCL for its Vega+ handheld console have yet to receive any update from the firm on delivery of the product while those who have requested refunds are experiencing delays in receiving them.ДЄ post on RCL's website dated in late March notes the company has managed to design the Vega+ packaging. It acquired them from Amstrad, which in turn bought them from Sir Clive Sinclair in the mid-1980s following his well-publicised commercial problems.

CREATING THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM VEGA TV

Sky In-Home Service Ltd, which installs Sky TV home equipment, holds the intellectual property rights to the Spectrum computers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Levy said: 'The current management has spent a huge amount of time dealing with nearly 300 rights owners to establish legal ownership of a number of games and we have removed a number of games accordingly.'ДЄndrews responded: 'The IP agreements and patent holders/licensors I was referring to in the book were in fact Sky, who hold all the trademarks and licenses for the Sinclair brand.'ДЄndrews pointed to the fact that Levy, in the same book, wrote at length how the royalties would be collected, paid and donated to charity. RCL chairman David Levy cited Andrews in a book the pair co-wrote, Creating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega, where he states: 'I negotiated the necessary IP agreements with the various patent holders and licensors that would allow us to create and market the product.'

Its management blamed former managing director Paul Andrews, who left the firm more than a year ago. The Reg asked RCL to explain why it had not issued royalty statements or paid rights-holders. Also a well-known games publisher, our developer has handed the matter to his lawyers. 'Despite constant requests RCL have just ignored all emails that pertain to royalty statements or payments,' they said. After complaining about the company's lack of communication and then terminating his contract with them, our game veteran said he received an email from RCL managing director Suzanne Martin promising that royalty statements and payments would be brought up to date within 48 hours.ДЄnother rights-holder, who also preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed the poor communications by RCL along with the lack of payments. He had initially contacted RCL to ask about the statements but heard nothing back. In fact I have never received any documentation of any sort from RCL,' the author said. 'I confirm that I have never received any royalty statements whatsoever. One respected figure with decades of involvement in the British games industry, who asked not to be identified, told The Register titles he developed had appeared on the Vega but he had received no payments.

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