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Technical deep dives, programming tricks, ROM lore and other long-form pieces about the ZX Spectrum and how it really works.

Gig Rush: a 2020s game, built for 1982 hardware

AI

16 August 2026

Z80GameOriginal

A complete, original single-screen arcade game in 2.6KB of hand-assembled Z80: dodge six lanes of traffic on a bike, delivering food before your phone battery dies. Built and tested the way modern software is, not the way 1983 software was.

A Minion on your Spectrum

AI

16 August 2026

Z80TutorialSprites

A complete little machine-code program: steer a goggle-wearing yellow fellow around the screen with QAOP. Every sprite technique a beginner needs, in 321 bytes.

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