I agree with all of that.PeteProdge wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:56 am I'm going to put my head above the parapet and say I honestly believed it would be coming out back in 2016. Some of the rather aggressive and immature language from Retro Computers's critics made me think that the project was just a plucky underdog and being held back by bitter fallouts.
By early 2017 of course, it was pretty obvious I was wrong, RCL weren't fulfilling promises. Yes, you can have delays with things, but nothing was adding up.
Having said that, some of the vitriol that is still hurled at David Levy and Suzanne Levy is sadly childish and personal. I wish a few of the ZX Vega+ critics would avoid the silly Photoshopped insults and the graffiti-on-a-toilet-door level of abuse, although my sympathy is now at graphene-thin levels.
It seems reasonable to have believed it was going to happen up until around the end of 2016. Indeed, I tapped up an old journo colleague who had a brief hands-on with the device at Wired 2016, and what he said to me then -- albeit it brief -- made me think that perhaps my doubts were unfounded. So yeah, I can see that even someone close to the scene might still have expected a successful outcome at that point.
And yep, all the silly stuff on social media is unfortunate -- not least because it aided RCL's go-to defence of online 'trolls' holding up progress. But that defence, tenuous though it always was, now looks utterly ridiculous. Sticks and stones and all that.