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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/ ...

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 ...

It put computers in the hands of many who may not otherwise have had access to them.” With the programming language, Basic, the ZX Spectrum allowed users to write games as well as play them. Dave ...

There have been many significant days in the history of the UK games industry, but the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was arguably the first of them. I went to meet two people that helped make it ...

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 ...

SpecNext started shipping its updated ZX Spectrum board to Kickstarter backers in December last year, with full computer-in-a-keyboard models to follow. Rather than having to connect his Next to a TV, ...

The 1980s computer produces surprisingly gorgeous ray-traced results, but be prepared to measure performance by hour rather than second. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Video game publisher Plaion recently announced plans to release a modern day recreation of the beloved ZX Spectrum. Launching on November 22, The Spectrum will ship with 48 pre-installed retro games, ...

The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model.