An abiding memory of the early-80s heyday of 8-bit computing for many is operating their computer from the carpet in front of the family TV. While the kids in the computer adverts had parents who ...

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/ ...

What if? That question haunts retro gamers everywhere. What if the companies behind beloved childhood machines hadn’t driven off a cliff in a clown car of bad decisions? ZX Spectrum fan Henrique ...

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s. ZX Spectrum ...

Thirty years after Sir Clive Sinclair’s original took the world by storm, the Spectrum name is to live on in the form of a new games machine that will be capable of playing all 14,000 Spectrum titles ...

The home computing pioneer created the ZX models, the first slimline pocket calculator and an early electric vehicle venture. Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who developed the ZX ...

The Spectrum is a recreation of the iconic ZX Spectrum, complete with working rubber keys and 48 built-in games, plus a special copy of Crash magazine. The ZX Spectrum launched the same year I was ...

The Spectrum faithfully recreates the 80s original with its rubber keys and classic games, delighting older gamers, while younger players may face a steep learning curve due to tricky controls and ...