Paul’s ZX Spectrum pages

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in the early eighties. First released in 1982, it was equiped with a lightning fast 3.54 MHz Zilog Z80A microprocessor, 16Kb or 48Kb of RAM (later models housed an impressive 128Kb) and it was able to display a resolution of 256x192 pixels in an overwhelming range of 8 colours (hence the name ‘Spectrum’).

This machine was the first computer I ever owned and it taught me a lot about the way that computers work. The Sinclair Basic built in the machine is a very accessible programming language and its simple architecture also makes it easy to program in z80 assembly.

These pages are dedicated to some of the projects I did for this machine, just because they are fun to do and other people might appreciate them. :)