15/06/2024

The quality of sound which comes from the ZX Spectrum's little beeper just cannot compare with that of its contempories such as the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and Oric-1.

The lack of decent sound from the Spectrum led to many manufacturers of peripherals to produce their own sound amplifiers and synthesizers.

24/05/2024

The VAL$ function didn't get much of a mention in the ZX Spectrum manual.

In this article, I attempt to explain how VAL$ works and explore some possible uses for this little used function.

14/01/2024

When Sinclair Research introduced the ZX Spectrum+ 128K in 1985 new commands and statements were added.

Later models such as the +2 and +3 introduced disk-based commands and CP/M-like filenames.