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Sinclair Spectrum Emulator (CE Palmtop)
Downloads With this freeware emulator program, palmtop users can play games from the Sinclair Spectrum game console on their Windows CE machine. Affectionately known as The Speccy, the Sinclair Spectrum was a vintage gaming system similar to the Commodore 64.
[May 18, 2000, 8:01]
Sinclair Spectrum Emulator (CE Handheld, MIPS)
Downloads With this freeware emulator program, handheld users can play games from the Sinclair Spectrum game console on their Windows CE machine. Affectionately known as The Speccy, the Sinclair Spectrum was a vintage gaming system similar to the Commodore 64.
[May 18, 2000, 8:09]
Sinclair Spectrum Emulator (CE Handheld, SH-3)
Downloads With this freeware emulator program, handheld users can play games from the Sinclair Spectrum game console on their Windows CE machine. Affectionately known as The Speccy, the Sinclair Spectrum was a vintage gaming system similar to the Commodore 64.
[May 18, 2000, 8:23]
Sinclair ZX81 computers back on sale
News An obsolete British home computer, the Timex/Sinclair ZX81, has made an unexpected and daring reappearance onto the personal computing scene, thanks to a retro computer reseller in the US. The unique piece of computer nostalgia, created by English...
[October 6, 2000, 11:18]
Sinclair Spectrum Emulator (CE Handheld, SH-4)
Downloads With this freeware emulator program, handheld users can play games from the Sinclair Spectrum game console on their Windows CE machine. Affectionately known as The Speccy, the Sinclair Spectrum was a vintage gaming system similar to the Commodore 64.
[May 18, 2000, 8:27]
Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbook
Blog All of the above - and I mean all - happened to Sinclair Research twenty five years ago. The ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL between them exhibited every one of the above faults, and while I never knew the failure rate of the QL (like it sold...
[January 21, 2008, 10:28]
Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbook
Blog Comment I would only add that Microsoft has one other thing that Sinclair didn't have - a huge pool of fanatically dedicated users who are willing to accept the unreliable, broken rubbish being sold to them. Excellent analysis.
[January 21, 2008, 12:41]
Andy Sinclair, Micro Focus
Talkback Stephen Timms is right to highlight that education and training is imperative if Britain is to avert the impending skills crisis with which it is faced. Most crucially however, this training must be given whilst catering to the needs of a business...
[October 25, 2007, 14:01]
Sinclair ZX81 computers back on sale
Talkback I have a ZX81 computer (in the UK) - hardly used - with a brand new unused printer, which goes with this (including paper) in original box. I also have a green plastic sheet which one put over the TV monitor to reduce the glare.
[October 21, 2004, 22:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sir Clive Sinclair is at it again! Looks useful, to be honest, although there is the risk -- as with so many Sinclair products -- that you'll look like a bit of a plonker riding one. Wednesday 7/7/2004
[July 9, 2004, 19:05]
Lessons in obsolescence
Leader Twenty-five years ago, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched. Yet when Amstrad took over the product just four years later, their engineers were stumped: the source for the Spectrum's system software came on 8-inch floppy disks, copied from the...
[April 24, 2007, 14:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Older, balder and smoother of chin, Uncle, later Sir, Clive Sinclair has been winkled out of hiding by some smart PR cookie and given a Segway electric trolley to play with. Sir Clive Sinclair has spoken, and now we wait.
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
MS removing Java applets from its Web sites
News I made the directive for two reasons," said Tim Sinclair, editor-in-chief of Microsoft's busy Web site. Saying the removal process would take between 30 and 60 days, Sinclair added that the ban primarily focuses on "navigational" applets and that...
[September 15, 1997, 9:43]
A Year Ago: Microsoft removing Java from its sites
News Microsoft conducted an internal review of its site and the applet ban was one among many decisions made, including keeping pages below 60KB, Sinclair said. Saying the removal process would take between 30 and 60 days, Sinclair added that the ban...
[September 14, 1998, 6:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Remember the Sinclair Research QL? Sir Clive Sinclair, please come back. Friday 21/09/01 It's fashionable to bemoan the fact that all the fun's gone out of PC technology. Back in the dim and distant, you could have five new and thoroughly...
[September 24, 2001, 12:49]
Zotob worm targets Windows 2000
News Mark Sinclair, technical services director at Trend Micro Australia, told ZDNet Australia that it was about to issue a yellow alert -- which means the worm is being reported in at least two [global] regions and there is a high potential for damage...
[August 15, 2005, 8:55]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback When I first came to Britian, the BBC computer (based on the Acorn computer) and Sir Clive Sinclair's Sinclair Computer were the leading PC's in Britain. adebayo omo-dare asserts that : "one would say that indications of Microsoft's basic...
[January 29, 2004, 19:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Pet, the Vic-20 and the Commodore 64 may have been far inferior products to our own fine Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro, but they nonetheless provided many years of digital excitement to the poor, the benighted and the Americans of this world.
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There were violently opposed camps -- sometimes literally so, with the heads of Acorn and Sinclair Research coming to blows at one infamous party -- with legions of devoted followers able and willing to argue the religions of 6502 versus Z80 long...
[May 12, 2006, 18:00]
Ginger - believe the hype?
News Those who remember Sir Clive Sinclair's ultimately doomed transportation innovation -- the Sinclair C5 -- could be forgiven for being a little sceptical about a revolutionary vehicle. It is a mystery invention that could start a revolution more...
[January 15, 2001, 15:50]
