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
Background The brains behind this release from the newly formed Purple Unicorn Software is Steve ‘JammaJup’ Dixon also the man behind the excellent www.jammajup.co.uk and arcade game enthusiast. When I first downloaded Pip the Pipistrelle and noticed that it had been based upon the Jet Set Willy engine using JSWed,Continue Reading
If you are of a certain age and owned a ZX Spectrum you will remember well the playground taunts from your Commodore owning friends regarding colour clash, its rubber keyboard and feeble sound effects. Likewise if you owned a Commodore 64 you will remember the playground taunts regarding washed outContinue Reading
Were getting all hot under our geeky collars here at RGC at the prospect of a re-released ZX Spectrum for its 30th anniversary next year. Details are sketchy at the moment but we have it on good authority that the UK game developer Elite Systems, who recently re-released some ofContinue Reading
Back once again with more news of Sinclair ZX Spectrum software auctions that have ended with good prices being paid, and more proof that there are collectors out there with deep pockets indeed… The software in question here is none other than the very rare Sinclair branded Macmillan Education titles;Continue Reading
Well I can’t expect you all to show me yours without showing you mine, so here it is. I have photographed just my Sinclair collection as it is my main area of collecting and listed the Sinclair stuff I have. I have lots of other retro goodies of all typesContinue Reading
All about the Sinclair ZX81 For the uninitiated the ZX81 was a small 8-bit home microcomputer invented and produced by Sinclair Research Limited of Cambridge, England. Sinclair Computers (renamed Sinclair Research Ltd. in March 1981) was founded by Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the pocket television, the first pocket calculator,Continue Reading