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 ...

FPGAs (like Xilinx’s Spartan series) are great building blocks. They often remind us of the 100-in-1 electronic kits we used to get as kids. Lots of components you can mix and match to make nearly ...

Everything old can be made new again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Despite its reign ending decades past, the ZX Spectrum is ...

Sir Clive Sinclair is bringing a classic of 80s computing back to life in a new form via IndieGoGo. A new version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum — the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega — has been designed by ...

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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is something of a legend in computing circles, as it was one of the very first reasonably priced home computers on which it was possible to actually do interesting stuff. By ...

In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum’s rubberised complement of grey rectangles.