Following on from his successful first book (delivery of that one is imminent, yay!) Chris has decided to make it a 3 part series with the 3rd part being available at a reduced price for Kickstarter backers of the first 2 books. Published by Fusion Retro Books, The Story ofContinue Reading
Jaw dropping new bit of kit? I must admit to exclaiming “What the **** is this?” when I first came across this a day or so ago. As anyone who knows me or reads these pages knows, I am more than a little bit of a ZX Spectrum evangelist. SoContinue Reading
Everyones favourite console modder Ben Heckendorn has started a new project, to make a compact portable ZX Spectrum. Totally stoked that he has decided to mod the iconic Speccy on The Ben Heck Show but must admit to cringing whenever he says Zee X Spectrum (way too many times). IContinue Reading
As many of you already have probably gathered from a quick look around the site, since it’s release I have had a rather (obsessively so sometimes!) fondness for Sir Clive’s first colour capable computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I was overjoyed to hear that Chris Wilkins, the man behind twoContinue Reading
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/j7WLYVOKtyk”] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
Tipped off by a friend on Instagram (thanks Graham @gameygamer !) I trundled off to www.bizzley.com to see what the fuss was about. And what a treat I found. Bob Pape has written a book about converting the seminal scrolling shooter R-Type to the ZX Spectrum and if that wasn’tContinue Reading
As I have reported before on several occasions, a number of Sinclair branded ZX Spectrum educational titles seem to command unusually high prices when sold online. Their rarity lies with the fact that although we all promised our parents that we wanted a computer for educational purposes, the reality wasContinue Reading
Sinclair Software and Peripheral Catalogues described the whole range of Sinclair branded software (at that particular time). As time went on the catalogues grew and also later included Sinclair branded peripherals such as Microdrives, the ZX Printer, Interface 1 and Interface 2. Most early ZX Spectrums (rubber keyed 16K andContinue Reading
Since posting a few pics of one of my Spectrum Six Packs on Instagram and Twitter, I noticed that this flimsy box of bundled software seemed to stir up happy gaming memories for a lot of people. Since there is very little on the internet relating to this bundle, andContinue Reading
