{"id":562,"date":"2022-02-20T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/?page_id=562"},"modified":"2024-05-17T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:30:43","slug":"the-recreated-sinclair-zx-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/?page_id=562","title":{"rendered":"The Recreated Sinclair ZX Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"562\" class=\"elementor elementor-562\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b15ddf7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b15ddf7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3454159\" 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Elite Systems pulled the companion app (Android and iOS) which contained an emulator, and the webpage in mid-2016 after a commercial dispute between Elite and Ceratech, the distributor of the keyboard. The website came back a year later but the companion app did not materialize.\u00a0The keyboards needed to be unlocked, otherwise only the number keys, &#8220;D&#8221; and &#8220;Enter&#8221; would work. A Java-script app on the website required the user to type in a 10-digit code on the keyboard after connecting to it to unlock (later versions came already unlocked).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brand: Elite SystemsModel: The Recreated ZX SpectrumMade in: ChinaFirst year<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/?page_id=562\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Recreated Sinclair ZX Spectrum<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-562","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclaircollection.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}