ZX Spectrum fans must be in absolute heaven now, especially following the latest hardware announcement. Just days after the release of the superb Spectrum White Edition, retro gaming fans have been ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

For all its faults, the UK clearly still loves the rickety old ZX Spectrum. An official remake of the old school computer, complete with hundreds of built-in games, recently raised more than £120,000 ...

We know [Happy Little Diodes] frequently works with logic analyzer projects. His recent wireless logic analyzer for the ZX Spectrum is one of the oddest ones we’ve seen in a while. The heart of the ...

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

The ZX Spectrum personal computer was released in the UK in 1982, at a time when the Commodore 64 was taking off in the US, and the Apple II was starting to show its age. Decades later, hardware and ...

The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, receive many donations from which they can enrich their collection and museum displays. Many are interesting but mundane, but the subject of their ...

A new film chronicling the rise and fall of Clive Sinclair's "now legendary" ZX Spectrum is set to premiere in London on 3rd October, 2024. From Gracious Films, GEL, and MusicFilmNetwork, The Rubber ...

Developers are worried the ZX Spectrum keyboard, which emulates the microcomputer of the same name from the 80s, will allow users to play unlicensed versions of their games. Elite Systems has the ...

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to a ...