It’s 1982. The ZX81 is a huge success and the ZX Spectrum is about to be. Britain is producing more home micros than Japan. Kickstarted into action by this success, men armed with soldering irons take to their sheds to build peripherals for their Sinclair machines. Sound a little bitContinue Reading
ZX82? No, it’s called ZX Spectrum Released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. and following on from the huge success of his previous home micros the ZX80 and ZX81 was Sir Clive Sinclair’s first colour computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (code-named ZX82 during development). Gone was the black and white,Continue Reading
Another rare (and these really are) ZX Spectrum title has just been sold on eBay for a whopping £448.23. 27 bidders showed an interest in ‘MacMan and the Caber Eater’ (even though there was a misspelling!) a hard to come by educational game by Sinclair/Macmillan. In previous posts I haveContinue Reading
Those of us lucky to have a ZX Spectrum back in 1984 were treated to probably one of the most original and frankly strange games of all time (Number 1 in the Top 7 Maddest British old-school games at gamesradar.com) – the award winning Deus Ex Machina designed and createdContinue Reading
Not content with giving us the amazing ZX Spectrum title Terry the Turtle, Purple Unicorn Software have released screenshots to RGC of their forthcoming Terry the Turtle – Vektor. From what we can see it looks stunning and the new title will be based on the Yellow and Cyan versionsContinue Reading
Background Purple Unicorn Software is a small software developer run by Steve ‘JammaJup’ Dixon, coinop enthusiast and also the man behind the excellent www.jammajup.co.uk. Another wildlife themed game ensues, following on from his fantastic Pip The Pipistrelle (see the review here), this time Steve has opted to get down toContinue Reading
I reported way back in 2009 about a set of Macmillan titles that sold in an eBay auction for figures way above what you normally expect most rare ZX Spectrum titles to sell for. Three of those titles (amongst others) were up for auction again and true to the recentContinue Reading
Another day, another auction. But this was no ordinary auction. In my many years of being an avid ‘ebayer’ (10 years+) I have only ever seen this come up once before. This auction was for Spellbox, a rare educational title by Macmillan under the Sinclair label. Not surprisingly it garneredContinue Reading
What a treat we have for you all this time. For this installment of the SUYC series, we are off to Belgium to visit a self-confessed Commodore geek, nuclear physicist (yes, really) and CEO of OriCon (www.oricon.eu) Robby Boey. This really is a jaw-dropping collection of epic proportions and aContinue Reading
Want to know what today’s school children think of the technology we found amazing when we were kids? This short but fascinating BBC video gives a humorous insight into just that. Thanks to Ibrar Khan (@K_Ibrar) for the heads-up. See the video here.Continue Reading