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Overthrow The State With A ZX Spectrum
Blog They did this with virtually no resources - a modified portable black and white TV set, a ZX Spectrum, and a homebrew radio transmitter that put out not much more power than a walkie-talkie. The next bit is to feed the timing info to the Spectrum...
[April 23, 2007, 0:17]
Lessons In Obsolescence
Leader Twenty-five years ago, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched. Or you can download a ZX Spectrum emulator, fire up Manic Miner, and remind yourself that while nobody can predict the future, it's still possible to give it a fighting chance.
[April 24, 2007, 14:33]
Amstrad Slashes Price Of E-m@iler
News This product supports email, Web browsing, SMS, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, and is the latest version of Amstrad's e-m@iler phone. In September 2000, after selling an estimated 100,000 e-m@ilers, Amstrad announced a new model -- the e-m@iler...
[January 2, 2003, 14:34]
Microsoft Takes Rotting Leaf Out Of Sinclair Research Playbook
Blog 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 enough to have one), the incredibly successful ZX Spectrum had a DOA (dead on arrival - the...
[January 21, 2008, 10:28]
Manic Miner For Windows
Downloads Manic Miner for Windows is a remake of the classes ZX Spectrum Manic Miner that was released in 1983. Manic Miner is considered as one of the first and finest arcade/platform game. Version 3.01 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug...
[September 13, 2005, 23:46]
Matchbox Hard Drive Packs In 4GB
Talkback wasn't the name "Microdrive" originally a Sinclair idea (remember ZX Spectrum days! Just in passing.If I remember rightly (which I probably don't! for a mini tape cartridge? I was one of the "elite" in those days.I had a Dragon 64k!
[February 13, 2004, 22:37]
Stack Up
Downloads Background sounds from original ZX Spectrum. Stackup is a cool game that include Columns, StackUp and Tetris.best scores saved for each game. Background music included. Select between Windowed (1024x768) and Full Screen mode.
[April 24, 2008, 21:46]
Krakout RE
Downloads Krakout RE is a new dynamic remake of the classic Krakout game that was a huge hit among ZX-Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amiga fans. Get ready for a new Arkanoid experience. You may be thinking that all you are getting is a free Arkanoid download...
[June 26, 2005, 5:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm of the generation where an evening hunched over the rubber keys and weedy beep of a warm ZX was an evening thoroughly enjoyed. News that Amstrad is actively seeking to buy the rights of Spectrum games brings joy to my heart.
[December 7, 2001, 16:37]
A Futurology Timeline Translator
Blog In twenty five years time: In 1982 you thought loading Jet Set Willy from tape to a ZX Spectrum was cool. If you're up early tomorrow and watching BBC Breakfast, there's a good chance you'll catch Diary pal Adrian on there, dissecting a report...
[March 2, 2007, 0:21]
Friday
Blog I came to those after struggling -- there is no other word -- with ZX Microdrives for a year. I lusted after 5.25" floppies when I was stuck with Spectrum tape drives, and got my first taste of real mass storage with those enormously capacious...
[February 7, 2003, 17:02]
Sugar Lumps More Features Into E-m@iler
News Like the original, this is an answerphone with text email and hands-free features; it now includes Web browsing, a reader for credit and debit cards with embedded chips, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum games compatibility.
[February 6, 2002, 16:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One rumour rings true, though -- it looks like the ZX Spectrum may rise again! The games take up stupidly tiny amounts of memory, the sound capabilities of a Spectrum precisely match those of a mobile and it doesn't take a lot of juice to emulate a...
[July 20, 2001, 16:41]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, Why Did You Go Away?
Blog Comment I remember the Currah Micro-Speech synthesiser for the ZX Spectrum. Voices are another example - there's something particularly inhuman when the intonation is not quite there. Plain robot? Fine. But always that same falling inflection at the end of...
[November 8, 2006, 15:09]
Vista Downgrade Product Prompts Lots Of U Turns!!
Blog Sir Clive Sinclair has brought out a cassette that lets you convert your ZX Spectrum into a ZX81 and Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are to be replaced with Sony's Betamax 1/2 inch (12.7 millimeter) home videocassette tape recording format.
[February 6, 2008, 13:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog That Rover runs off a 2MHz 80C85 processor -- the same as in a Tandy Model 100 notebook, and around half as powerful as the processor in a ZX Spectrum -- and talks back to the lander via a cut-down walkie talkie and a 2400bps radio modem.
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News That Rover runs off a 2MHz 80C85 processor -- the same as in a Tandy Model 100 notebook, and around half as powerful as the processor in a ZX Spectrum -- and talks back to the lander via a cut-down walkie talkie and a 2400bps radio modem.
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
Wednesday
Blog The last time I paid £130 for a new computer, it was a ZX Spectrum twenty years ago, and that was great value for money. Wednesday 25/09/2002They still don't know whether they'll be doing it over here, but AOL has fulfilled one of its fondest...
[September 27, 2002, 18:00]
Amstrad Still Losing Money On The E-m@iler
News This was followed by an second, more powerful version which also boasted a Web browser, a credit-card reader and Sinclair ZX Spectrum games. The e-m@iler is still taking a chunk out of Amstrad's wallet, more than three years after the Internet...
[September 25, 2003, 13:25]
Ex Luna Scientia
Blog But much of the mission was based on calculations done by ground-based computers which would have given a ZX Spectrum a run for their money. Like Wales, football pitches and cigarette packets, the Apollo Guidance Computer has become a default analogy.
[October 29, 2006, 14:49]
