It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

AS the ZX Spectrum computer turns 30 today, The Scotsman looks back on why Sir Clive Sinclair’s sleek black and rainbow-coloured box set the course for the way we play today Did you know with a ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum. But you won’t need ...

The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than ...

The Joy of Specs - in memory of our long lost rubber-keyed friend... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. We are running ...

Began his career as a mail-order radio salesman; failed to launch 1980s electric cars. How many people in the UK tech and computing industry owe their entire careers to being kickstarted by the ...

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