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About Jack Berlin
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About Jack Berlin
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vega
games
rights
software
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spectrum
To All Sinclair Spectrum Software Rights Owners Our launch announcement for the Sinclair Spectrum Vega has been a success well beyond our wildest expectations. We set ourselves what we considered to be a reasonable target – reaching £100,000 in our Indiegogo campaign within 2 months, and we achieved that in less than 36 hours! This gives us the funds that Retro Computers Ltd need to cover all of the start-up production costs, including the manufacture and distribution of the first 1,000 Vega computers. Because we ran out of the first 1,000 Limited Edition units so quickly we are now offering games enthusiasts the opportunity to reserve one of the Vegas from the second Limited Edition production run of 3,000 units, which will secure them a Vega within 2 months or so of the first 1,000 reaching their owners. Anyone who pledges for our “Kilobyte Plus†Indiegogo offering will be notified shortly before we are ready to release the next 3,000 units and will then be able, if they wish, to purchase a Vega at the pre-retail price of £100. We are also very pleased at the number of Spectrum software rights owners who have already given us permission to include some or all of their Spectrum games in the Vega hardware, in return for which we will be making a combined donation of £5 per Vega to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. This amount is fixed, and is based on our estimate of what the trade (wholesale) price of the Vega would have needed to be for the first 4,000 units had they been sold in the shops, which in turn is based on our estimates of the various costs involved in preparing for and embarking on the manufacture of the product. All of the above plans will put Retro Computers Ltd on a sound financial footing for the first two Limited Edition production runs of the Vega, and at the same time make a significant contribution to the charity. Following on from these successes we are now announcing our software rights owner policy for production runs subsequent to the first 4,000 Vegas. By then we will have amortized the cost of the steel tools used to manufacture the ABS case of the Vega and the elastomer for the keys, as well as various other one-off costs associated with putting the Vega into production. More importantly, we then expect to be manufacturing in larger quantities for the retail market in the UK and abroad, so there will be economies of scale that can be achieved in the manufacturing cost and therefore in our trade (wholesale) selling price. We do not yet know what the longer-term pricing of the Vega will be and we are therefore making our longer-term offer to Spectrum software rights owners a percentage of our net receipts from sales, which is the trade price of the Vega when it is sold through retail outlets, and our selling price (excluding postage and packing) when it is sold from our web site. Our longer-term offer to Spectrum software rights owners is this. We will make a donation of 10% of our net selling price to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. In addition we will make a pro-rata payment based on the same amount to whichever you prefer – the charity or yourself. So if, for example, you give us permission to use 10 of your games in the 1,000 games provided in the Vega, you or the charity will receive 1% of that additional amount, since 1% of the games in the Vega will be your games. The payments to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity will be made every quarter. The payments to rights owners cannot be made so frequently because of the administrative costs involved, so we will be making those payments annually, by the end of January for sales in the previous calendar year. We invite all of you games developers and Spectrum software rights owners to accept our invitation to support the Vega project and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity in this way. We are therefore asking for your permissions to include your games in the Vega ROM. If you do decide to accept our invitation please contact us via this link, giving us the names of your games for which you are granting us permission, and to tell us whether you prefer us to donate the additional amount to the charity or to pay it to yourself. About the Retro Computers Ltd team All those software rights owners who do so will be named, together with their games, on our company web site, and there will be a similar credit on the software “Roll of Honour†which will be displayed when users power up their Vega games computer. All those software rights owners will also be invited to the Vega launch party in London next spring. If you do not want your games to be incorporated in the Vega ROM please contact us in the same way as above, giving us your contact details and a list of the games that you do not want to be in the Vega ROM. Thank you. David Levy [Chairman – Retro Computers Ltd.]