The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s. ZX Spectrum ...

Radiohead has never shied away from arty and elaborate “special edition” versions of its albums, which normally ship to fans with unique artwork and limited vinyl. But Tuesday’s collector’s item ...

The ZX Spectrum was a 1980s icon which played a starring role in the revolution that brought computers into the UK’s homes for the first time. The 8-bit computer arrived in 1982 with its distinctive ...

ZX Spectrum fans might be interested in a new project which has been published by shred.zone documenting the process of making a modern replica of the British ZX Spectrum 8-bit personal computer.

The 1980s computer produces surprisingly gorgeous ray-traced results, but be prepared to measure performance by hour rather than second. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

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 ...