The next bit is to feed the timing info to the Spectrum, which has a small machine code program that waits for the start of the picture, then counts the number of lines until it gets to the right ...

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers.

What if? That question haunts retro gamers everywhere. What if the companies behind beloved childhood machines hadn’t driven off a cliff in a clown car of bad decisions? ZX Spectrum fan Henrique ...

The ZX Spectrum+, released in 1984, used a more traditional keyboard. Eventually, Alan Sugar’s Amstrad bought the brand and released a range of 'Spectrum’ machines of their own.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Similar to the Commodore 64 in the US, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was many people's first taste of home computing.

The ZX Spectrum Next, though, is different. Based around a Xilinx Spartan field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the machine features an implementation of the Z80 processor architecture that ran ...

Production is set to start on a remodelled version of the ZX Spectrum, which will come pre-installed with 1,000 classic game titles.