RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
30th July 1940 - 16th Sept 2021 The British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair has passed away at the age of 81, following a long illness. He is...
<5 Min BASIC #12 - Machine Learning
Most games would be pretty one-sided without some form of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Here, I've cooked up a little Sinclair BASIC...
Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Dead
Rick Dickinson, the Industrial Designer responsible for the unique and memorable appearance of the Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum...
Dara's Go 8 Bit Returns
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit, returns to British television channel Dave for a third series on Monday 12th February 2018 at 10pm. The often...
Gifts - Mini Arcade Machine
(All information correct on 12th December 2017). Do you love arcade games? Fond memories of playing games on the seafront during...
Upgrade ZX 48k to 128k? Yes you could.
Near the end of the commercial availability of the ZX Spectrum , a lad I went to school with wrote in asking Your Sinclair magazine if...
<5 Min *AGD* BASIC #3 - Stationary Sprites
Sprites can move in different directions across the screen but, sometimes you may want a stationary sprite, as an obstacle or...
<5 Min *AGD* BASIC #2 - Ice Slide
Let's start off by looking at how we can give our player character a slippery obstacle to avoid (or use wisely). For this tutorial you...
<5 Min *AGD* BASIC #1 - Intro to AGD BASIC
The Sinclair Spectrum ROM BASIC is great, and has plenty of keywords to build a plethora of programs, including games but - it was...
Vegadvent Discontinued
After two years of on-off tinkering with my indie text adventure engine Vegadvent, I have decided to discontinue development to make way...
