Indiegogo has said that it is willing to extend the deadline it gave to a project attempting to make a handheld version of a classic British computer.
But the crowdfunding site says that the team behind the ZX Spectrum Vega+ has yet to meet its conditions.
In February, Indiegogo threatened to appoint debt collectors if the campaign had not fulfilled its commitments by the end of May.
The project's chief told the BBC he was "still determined to deliver".
Dr David Levy added that he believed many backers "still are fully supportive of our finishing the project".The campaign originally pledged to send out the console in the summer of 2016.
The company he chairs, Retro Computers Ltd (RCL), has issued an update to backers saying it now intends to deliver the first consoles by 15 June.
He also told the BBC that "Indiegogo has extended the date" to mid-June.
Games clash
RCL has previously said problems with the console's hardware contributed to earlier delays.
But Dr Levy alleges that much of the blame falls on an ex-director of the firm, Paul Andrews, who he described as "the vilest enemy of RCL and the Vega+ project".
Mr Andrews told the BBC that he denied this and other claims that Mr Levy had made about him, which he said had "consistently proven to be false".
A recent dispute between the two men concerned the games that backers had been told would be pre-installed on the console.
On 22 May, RCL posted a Facebook update that accused Mr Andrews and others of casting doubt over whether it had the rights to supply the titles.
As a result, RCL said, it now needed to contact each rights-holder to confirm a licence had been granted, which would "take some time".
Mr Andrews has acknowledged that he had pressed the company to prove the devices were "fully legally compliant", but denied he was to blame for a delay.
"The RCL response was for them to write to all games rights owners... when already [many] games had been withdrawn by rights-owners," he told the BBC.
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