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Ninja Gardening Simulator: The Spectrum’s Crackpots, With the Ninjas on the Outside Trying to Get In
In 1983, Activision’s Potsy the gardener defended his Brooklyn rooftop by dropping flowerpots on climbing bugs. In 2019, Andrew Bunker flipped the…
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Impossabubble: Dave Clarke Turned Himself into a Bubble, and the Spectrum Got a Platformer
The plot is a lab accident: somebody’s experiments with bubble-mix were meant to create levitating assassins, you foiled them — and got…
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ZX Spectrum Next Smashes Kickstarter Goal
The £99 heart of the ZX Spectrum Next: the TBBlue Issue 2A board — FPGA at its centre, SD storage, twin joystick…
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The ZX Spectrum Vega+: The Handheld That Raised Half a Million Pounds and Broke Its Backers’ Hearts
In February 2016, this post announced the ZX Spectrum Vega+ with genuine excitement: the plug-and-play Vega was going handheld, 1,000 games in…
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Ben Heck’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum mod – part 1
The patient: a ZX Spectrum 48K — rubber keys, rainbow stripe and all — the machine Ben Heckendorn set out to make…