Sinclair Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sinclair/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Sinclair Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sinclair/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 Loading… Ready, RUN for your life! http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14492 Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/feed/ 0 14492 Paleotronic’s Top Ten Famous and Infamous Christmas-Themed Video Games http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2019 02:09:35 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9850 Christmas themed video games have always been a category of computer and console video gaming that has bewildered me. Often they have been very poor adaptations of a holiday season meant to bring about fond [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/feed/ 0 9850 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 A New ZX Spectrum Christmas Demo! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:23:13 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9435 In the best of home computer traditions; here at Paleotronic we’re celebrating Christmas with a quick delve into Sinclair BASIC and a festive type in listing. It’s time to dust off the trusty 48k ZX [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/04/a-new-zx-spectrum-christmas-demo/feed/ 0 9435 Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:58:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=8693 (Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/feed/ 0 8693 microM8 Update: Back to the Debugger http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/#respond Sat, 20 Jul 2019 10:44:37 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=5233 Mark Lemmert of 6502 Workshop has been using microM8 to debug Nox Archaist, an Apple II RPG he’s developing, and we’re really happy when people use our stuff to do cool things. So we thought [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/feed/ 0 5233 A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:17:08 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3716 In late 1972, as Apollo Space Missions were winding down a burgeoning virtual space race was busily preparing for launch. A sub-genre of simulation games soon to be known as Lunar Landers was taking to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/feed/ 0 3716 GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:06:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3390 Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/feed/ 0 3390 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download) http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:55:41 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2960 Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more...]

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