I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm sitting there, in my parent's lounge, as my dad comes down the stairs with what looks like a black box. He peels back the paper sleeve to reveal a polystyrene ...

A total of 33 years after it first debuted, a new ZX Spectrum is back - and you can play all your old favourites. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega is an officially-licensed product, produced by former ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great ...

A new game engine developed by Scott Porter allows the classic ’80s game Manic Miner, originally for Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers, to be played on an Arduino UNO. This engine is distinct from ...

An enduring memory for most who used the 8-bit home computers of the early 1980s is the use of cassette tapes for program storage. Only the extremely well-heeled could afford a disk drive, so if you ...