10 PRINT "WELCOME BACK TO 1982"

48K of pure nostalgia

Welcome to a site dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum — the little black box with the rubber keys that introduced a generation to computing. Here you'll find reviews of classic (and new!) Spectrum games, reviews of books about the machine and its era, links to where you can legally download software, and videos of Spectrum-related hardware projects being built.

Latest game reviews

Atic Atac

Ultimate Play the Game, 1983 · Tim & Chris Stamper

Action-adventureMazeClassic

Escape a five-story haunted castle armed with a ranged weapon and a roast chicken for a health bar. Ultimate at their finest.

█████████░ 9/10

Green Beret

Imagine Software, 1986 · Jonathan "Joffa" Smith

Arcade conversionActionClassic

One man, one knife, four levels of Cold War mayhem. One of the finest arcade conversions the Spectrum ever received.

█████████░ 4.5 / 5

Manic Miner

Bug-Byte, 1983 · Matthew Smith

PlatformerClassic

Matthew Smith's 48KB masterpiece: twenty caverns of pixel-perfect peril and the Spectrum's first continuous in-game music.

████████▌░ 8.5/10

Latest from the workbench

Kempston joystick interface

InterfacePCBWay build

The classic port-31 joystick interface, built on a PCBWay board. Full write-up with build video and a complete component list.

Hardware builds, PCB projects and repairs — head over to the Projects section for build videos of Spectrum-related boards made with PCBWay.

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