My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I still remember the feel of those rubber keys and how the process of loading the game often took longer than you spent playing it. The ZX Spectrum was ...

Phone in sick and let the kids find their own way back from school: the Spectrum’s back! For gamers of a certain age the ZX Spectrum was the ultimate games machine, and now it’s making a return – with ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

The recreated Sinclair ZX Spectrum will be a Bluetooth keyboard, initially for iOS and subsequently for Android and Windows phones and tablets (as well as for PCs and Macs), in the form-factor of a ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

More than two decades after its official discontinuation, Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum is to return to the market in the form of a crowd-funded limited-edition gaming-centric model dubbed the ...

The best and worst thing about the internet is that anything and everything can be remembered - and, with enough effort, recreated. In that vein, the Spectrum is coming back. That's right, the ZX ...