Last
updated
7 Jan 1998
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The "Loki"
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"Loki"
was the Spectrum that never was. When Sinclair's
computer range was sold to Amstrad in 1986, a
number of next generation products were still in
the pipeline but never came to fruition. Foremost
of these was the so-called Super Spectrum, the
Low-cost Colour Computer (or LoCC, inevitably
codenamed "Loki"). It was intended to
be an Amiga-beater, with custom graphics and
sound chips, a "huge" 512x256
resolution in up to 256 colours and a 128K
memory. And all for under £200. This, of course,
was completely unrealistic: at the time, the
Amiga cost £1,500, a price imposed by its
sophisticated custom hardware. In the event,
Amstrad abandoned design work on the machine. The
keyboard appears to have influenced the design of
the Spectrum +2 and +3 case, but otherwise
nothing ever emerged of the "Loki". |
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