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Sinclair launched the ZX Microdrive in July 1983. True to Sinclair’s philosophy of miniaturisation and low-cost, it promised a cheap, high-speed storage system using miniature tape cartridges. Unfortunately the Microdrive didn’t take off as well as Sinclair hoped, dogged by unreliability and also the high cost of the tape cartridges.Continue Reading
Gary Plowman (AKA Gazzapper Games) sent me the ZX Spectrum Games Code Club to review quite a while back now. Unfortunately for him I have been building my upcoming (yes, and it is close!) retro gaming store and that got in the way of my penning this review. What IContinue Reading
A third Visual Compendium book; Sinclair ZX Spectrum: A Visual Compendium has now been published by Sam Dyer at Bitmap Books, following another highly successful KickStarter campaign. It follows on from two other successfully funded books covering the Commodore 64 (see review here) and the Commodore Amiga, but now coversContinue Reading
Whats wrong with a normal Speccy anyway? As anyone who ever owned a ZX Spectrum will testify, loading from tape could sometimes be a frustrating affair, what with misaligned heads, dropouts and all manner of other things causing the dreaded ‘R Tape loading error, 0:1‘. Loading times were another bugbearContinue Reading
So you have got your old Spectrum+ out from the loft because you don’t like the look of that ‘orrible thing called the Vega. You plug it in but alas, some or all of the keys don’t work. Well, the keyboard membrane has failed but don’t go binning your 80sContinue Reading
As I have stated in previous reviews for this particular series of books, us Spectrum fans have never had it so good. What with the world and his dog all falling over themselves to produce new hardware, ‘recreated’ hardware and new software for our ageing micro, it is almost likeContinue Reading
Never since the actual release of the ZX Spectrum in 1982, has there been a better time to be a fan of this great British microcomputer. With new hardware releases such as the DivMMC, Just Speccy 128 and Spectranet, our humble little machine has been dragged kicking and beeping intoContinue Reading
Now here’s an idea. A range of 80s micro computers in Lego form. Sound good? Well it could be reality if enough people vote for them on the Lego Ideas site. This particular range by user ‘Fbsarts’ has been joined by my personal favourite 80s micro, the ZX Spectrum. AContinue Reading
Back in the 80s, a new breed of gamer emerged. These gamers weren’t just content with playing a game, they lived that game. Right up until the last boss was defeated or the final treasure found. Back then games were hard, rock hard, a fact many a veteran gamer willContinue Reading