YouTuber and orbital mechanics expert Scott Manley has successfully landed a virtual Kerbal astronaut on the Mun, the in-game moon of Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum home computer equipped ...

Enter YouTuber Scott Manley and a project to land a spacecraft on the Moon, with a ZX Spectrum being used to control the descent to the surface.

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

The Joy of Specs - in memory of our long lost rubber-keyed friend... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. We are running ...

The awesome Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my second computer and followed on from the 1K ZX81, providing the first taste of colour and a larger memory capable of playing games such as JetPac, Manic Miner ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...