In the early 1980s when the 8-bit microcomputer boom was well under way, [Alan Faulds] was a student, and an owner of a Sinclair ZX81. He had ambitions to use it, in his words, “to control the world“, ...

Industrial designer who gave the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum their distinctive look has died of cancer in the US The designer of the Sinclair Spectrum home computer, Rick Dickinson, has died of cancer ...

The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...

It may have been startlingly modern once, but at 30, the Sinclair Spectrum is as close in time to the world's first commercial computers of the 50s as it is to the latest iPad. It's doing rather ...

A classic 1980s video game console is making a comeback after a crowdfunding site raised £150,000 in just 48 hours. With it's cassette deck, simple controls and basic graphics, the Spectrum ZX cannot ...

The designer of the Sinclair Spectrum home computer, Rick Dickinson, has died in the US following a battle against cancer. Dickinson was also behind the design of the other classic Sinclair home ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, who has passed away aged 81, will be remembered as one of Britain's most prolific innovators, who has had a profound influence on the software industry in general, and the gaming ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the man behind the famous ZX Sinclair Spectrum computers, has passed away at his London home aged 81, his family has confirmed. The entrepreneur was most widely known for ...

Want to play classic games on a handheld device? You can load up an emulator on your smartphone… but if you don’t want to have to fiddle with touchscreen buttons or connect a game controller with ...

Whatever the first computer you used to manipulate digital audio was, the chances are it came with dedicated sound hardware that could play, and probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might have ...