ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer developed by Sinclair Research.
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ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer developed by Sinclair Research.
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ZX Spectrum was among the first home computers in the United Kingdom aimed at a mainstream audience, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the US or the MO5 in France.
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The introduction of the ZX Spectrum led to a boom in companies producing software and hardware for the machine, the effects of which are still seen.
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The ZX Spectrum character set was expanded from that of the ZX81, which did not feature lower-case letters.
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ZX Spectrum BASIC included extra keywords for the more advanced display and sound, and supported multi-statement lines.
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The ZX Spectrum reused a number of design elements of the ZX81: The ROM code for things such as floating point calculations and expression parsing were very similar.
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Original ZX Spectrum is remembered for its rubber chiclet keyboard, diminutive size and distinctive rainbow motif.
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An "Issue 1" ZX Spectrum can be distinguished from later models by the colour of the keys – light grey for Issue 1, blue-grey for later machines.
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Original ZX Spectrum model experienced numerous changes to its motherboard design; mainly to improve manufacturing efficiencies, but to correct bugs from previous boards.
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Appearance of the ZX Spectrum 128 was similar to the ZX Spectrum+, with the exception of a large external heatsink for the internal 7805 voltage regulator added to the right hand end of the case, replacing the internal heatsink in previous versions.
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ZX Spectrum 128 had no internal speaker, unlike its predecessors.
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ZX Spectrum +2 was Amstrad's first Spectrum, coming shortly after their purchase of the Spectrum range and "Sinclair" brand in 1986.
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ZX Spectrum +2 power supply was a grey version of the ZX Spectrum+ and 128 power supply.
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ZX Spectrum +2A was a variant of the Spectrum +3, released in 1987, and housed inside a black case.
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ZX Spectrum +3, released in 1987, looked similar to the +2A but featured a built-in 3-inch floppy disk drive instead of the tape drive, and was in a black case.
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ZX Spectrum used a crowdfunding campaign to fund the Recreated ZX Spectrum, which would be compatible with games the company had already released on iTunes and Google Play.
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ZX Spectrum Next is an expanded and updated version of the ZX Spectrum computer implemented with FPGA technology funded by a Kickstarter campaign in April 2017, with the board-only computer delivered to backers later that year.
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The ZX Spectrum was intended to work with a normal domestic cassette recorder.
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ZX Spectrum is affectionately known as the Speccy by elements of its fan following.
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Since 2020, there has been a museum, LOAD ZX Spectrum, dedicated to the ZX Spectrum and other Sinclair products, located in Cantanhede, Portugal.
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