Technical deep dives, programming tricks, ROM lore and other long-form pieces about the ZX Spectrum and how it really works.
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In 1984 a journalist dialled a ZX Spectrum into Prince Philip's private mailbox, read his mail, deleted it to cover his tracks — and told Prestel exactly what he'd done. The court case that followed is the reason Britain has a computer hacking law at all.
Sinclair stopped making the Spectrum in 1992. Nobody told the Soviet Union. Amateur clones built from smuggled schematics spread across the USSR by the hundreds of thousands — and the newest one was designed in 2025.