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 ...

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 ...

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/ ...

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 ...

It’s not a good time to be a backer of the crowdfunded Sinclair ZX Vega retro console. After raising a record sum on Indiegogo, a long series of broken promises and missed dates, and a final loss of ...

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Back in 2012, when retro gamers were celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, if you'd told me that just three years later we'd be seeing not one but two new hardware launches ...

The ZX Spectrum is one of the best-selling computers of all time: a British-made, 8-bit machine that shifted around 5 million units across Europe after its launch in 1982. It’s one of the few ...

The ZX Spectrum was a curiously British invention. At the time, Americans were designing computers as massive slabs of plastic, with chunky typewriter keyboards. Ancient Ataris, the Apple II and ...