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posted by mrpg on Monday June 11 2018, @10:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-you-dare-touch-my-trs-80 dept.

Crowdfunding site Indiegogo has called time on a high-profile British project to create a retro handheld console.

[...] "Indiegogo asked for proof that we are ready to ship the product and requested that we send them a unit to their San Francisco office," added Dr David Levy, RCL's chairman

"We responded yesterday saying that we would sooner give a demonstration of a unit to their UK representative, and asking Indiegogo to request that he contact us to fix an appointment. Their reaction was this latest statement."

[...] The Vega+ campaign raised a total of £512,790 from more than 4,700 people on Indiegogo before the US firm blocked it from accepting more funds in March 2017.

[...] RCL has missed multiple deadlines over the past two years and given a variety of reasons for doing so, ranging from problems with the buttons of the Vega+ to disputes with former company directors - the details of which are contested.

The company had originally pledged to deliver the console in the summer of 2016.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @02:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @02:02PM (#691386)

    You commie bastard! Giving people things for free! How dare you undermine our great american way?

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 11 2018, @03:10PM

    RMS once pointed out to me that "Information doesn't want to be free. Information doesn't want to be anything."

    He's always been quite pedantic about the importance of correct language.

    So I replaced "info wants..." in an essay I wrote with "It's not because Information wants to be Free, but because one has a responsibility to create Free Information" as the tagline for an essay called "Why I'm Proud To Be A Dirty GNU Hippy".

    Just now I discovered that essay isn't online anymore. I'll post it then reply with its link.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]