Hackaday

Try Out Your Assembly And BASIC Skills With A ZX Spectrum Project

It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum. But you won’t need ...
BBC

The Spectrum, the Pi - and the coding backlash

A wave of nostalgia is sweeping Britain today, with men in their 40s the group most affected. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the first computer to enter many a teenage bedroom, is 30 today, and its ...
T3

Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum introduced a generation to home gaming and coding, me included

My ZX Spectrum had the external 32KB RAM pack attached, giving me a total of 48KB. There was no screen, so I pugged it into an old portable TV and to load games I had to attach an external tape ...
Stuff

Fully Charged: Sinclair ZX Spectrum now a plug-and-play console, Jared Leto and Will Smith in DC’s Suicide Squad, and Google’s Santa Tracker teaches coding

If you have fond memories of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum from the ‘80s, then you can’t miss the new Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega currently being crowdfunded on Indiegogo. It’s a plug-and-play console that ...
CNET

Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum: 'This is where the UK games industry came from'

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/ ...