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Welcome to a site dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum — the little black box with the rubber keys that introduced a generation to computing. Here you'll find reviews of classic (and new!) Spectrum games, reviews of books about the machine and its era, links to where you can legally download software, and videos of Spectrum-related hardware projects being built.
Eight mercenaries, eight full personnel dossiers, and a roster-building screen with more narrative ambition than most of its budget-shelf contemporaries bothered with. Whether there's a mission behind it is a question this review, in good conscience, cannot answer.
A clever little copying utility whose biggest technical achievement — copying software far larger than itself — may also have been its most awkward business feature: it could copy itself.
Dan lands his airship on Dr. Blitzen's hideout to steal the plans for a Death Ray — eight sticks of dynamite, a lot of falling, and Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca standing in for a soundtrack.
A hardback programming manual at £9.95 — nearly a third of a Spectrum's own price — that covers the ZX81 and the Spectrum side by side rather than picking one.
A slim, cheerful 1985 paperback that pairs BASIC listings with actual Meccano-and-motor robot builds, written around the Datel Robotek interface this site has its own recreated PCB for.
A 52-issue weekly partwork that built into a 1,600-page programming course spanning six machines at once, including the Spectrum — and buried inside it, a 22-part machine code epic almost nobody finished typing in.
A £10 "untested" rubber-keyed Speccy bought sight unseen in East Java, a government import ban standing between me and a bag of axial capacitors, and a £36 chip for a £10 computer.
Four AI-generated 'remaster' covers and a ten-second trailer for classic Spectrum games, none of them real. A look at what an image model gets right, what it invents, and where it quietly mixes its own history up.
The chip inside your Spectrum also ran Pac-Man, half the arcades of the 1980s, the Sega Genesis's sound, and — through a direct descendant — is still inside graphing calculators being sold today. A plain-English guide to the Z80's 48-year career.
Why the Kempston interface mattered if you owned an original Spectrum, a birthday-money joystick disaster from October 1985, and a homebrew rebuild for a fraction of the 1985 price.
A faithful recreation of Datel's long out-of-production Robotek interface, corrected against the original schematics from Make and Program Your Own Robots.
Hardware builds, PCB projects and repairs — head over to the Projects section for build videos of Spectrum-related boards made with PCBWay.
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