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 ...

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It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

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/ ...

It put computers in the hands of many who may not otherwise have had access to them.” With the programming language, Basic, the ZX Spectrum allowed users to write games as well as play them. Dave ...

There have been many significant days in the history of the UK games industry, but the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was arguably the first of them. I went to meet two people that helped make it ...

All those computers in bedrooms gave the British video game industry a huge head start over the rest of the world He was the Saturday job tea-boy who created a game that sold thousands of copies. Just ...