The original Spectrum source code was delivered to Amstrad — on 8-inch floppies, to make it more exciting for them — but there the trail runs cold.

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers.

For all its faults, the UK clearly still loves the rickety old ZX Spectrum. An official remake of the old school computer, complete with hundreds of built-in games, recently raised more than £ ...

I quickly learn that the keyboard is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an 8-bit personal home computer that relies on a cassette deck to load and save games.

The ZX Spectrum was of course the brainchild of the late Clive Sinclair, the serial entrepreneur and inventor who came to prominence in 1972 with one of the world’s first – and by far its ...

Home computing pioneer Clive Sinclair created the ZX computers, the first slimline pocket calculator and an early electric vehicle venture.

The ZX Spectrum’s competitor was the Commodore 64, a popular machine that Retro Games had already recreated. Nowadays we’ve got The Spectrum, which is ready to take you back to the 80s (but ...

The ZX Spectrum Vega is an all-in-one joypad that plugs into your TV via HDMI, and is powered by USB – and comes with 1000 built-in Spectrum games. The plan is to continue releasing even more titles ...

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 ...