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 ...
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 ...
BBC

The Spectrum, the Pi - and the coding backlash

A wave of nostalgia is sweeping Britain today, with men in their 40s the group most affected. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the first computer to enter many a teenage bedroom, is 30 today, and its ...
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/ ...