Boing Boing on MSN

ZX Spectrum BASIC interpreter remade from scratch on the web

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to a ...
CNET

Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum: 'This is where the UK games industry came from'

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...
Hackaday

Try Out Your Assembly And BASIC Skills With A ZX Spectrum Project

It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum. But you won’t need ...
Stuff

Fully Charged: Sinclair ZX Spectrum now a plug-and-play console, Jared Leto and Will Smith in DC’s Suicide Squad, and Google’s Santa Tracker teaches coding

If you have fond memories of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum from the ‘80s, then you can’t miss the new Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega currently being crowdfunded on Indiegogo. It’s a plug-and-play console that ...
Den Of Geek

The Games That Defined the ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum shouldn’t have been that big of a deal. It was a budget and underpowered personal computer released at a time when the personal computer industry had more options than most people ...