I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm sitting there, in my parent's lounge, as my dad comes down the stairs with what looks like a black box. He peels back the paper sleeve to reveal a polystyrene ...

Retro Games Ltd has released its all-white, special edition version of The Spectrum – a lovingly recreated remake of the 80s ...

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For those who enjoyed classic games like Chuckie Egg and Elite, little can compare to the nostalgia that Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum home computer invokes. The venerable "Speccy" made a big ...

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/ ...

Hey! If you have fond memories playing Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy on your family TV, you’ll love The Rubber Keyed Wonder. It’s a new documentary chronicling the birth, life, death and rebirth of the ...

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If there is one thing that Sir Clive SInclair was famous for, it was producing electronic devices that somehow managed to squeeze near-impossible performance out of relatively meagre components. This ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

Sir Clive Sinclair needs no introduction, at least not to those of us who’ve been in the industry for a while, or are familiar with 1970s-era calculators and 80s-era computers. An entrepreneur since ...

It may have been startlingly modern once, but at 30, the Sinclair Spectrum is as close in time to the world's first commercial computers of the 50s as it is to the latest iPad. It's doing rather ...