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• Resources

  • The World of Spectrum

    Essential site for all things spectrum. Incorporates the wonderful Sinclair Infoseek search engine.

  • Planet Sinclair

    The original site for all things essential.

  • comp.sys.sinclair FAQ

    Collation of things that go by on the comp.sys.sinclair usenet group. Really useful site for both users and techies.

  • Retrospec

    Retrospec are a team of coders, graphics artists and computer musicians who have gathered together to bring you all the best remakes of old 8 bit games.

  • on filmation

    Analysing and viewing the zx spectrum games Knight Lore, Alien 8 and Pentagram by ultimate. Includes links to various ultimate related sites, a tutorial on isometric gaming (using the isocis c++ library).

  • FishyFish Speccy Maps

    Top-notch maps from a number of spectrum classics.
  
  

• Tributes

  • The Chuckie Egg Professional's Resource Kit

    Chuckie Egg's another game that also remains a classic. Contains information about the original authors.

  • Ian Bell's Elite pages

    Elite site setup by Ian Bell, co-author of the original BBC-Micro version and later the port to the 8-bit NES. Site includes a flight manual, version information, FAQ, Text Elite, fiction, Elite The Musical, and an archive containing the executables and source code for most release versions of Elite.

  • Ultimate-Wurlde

    From the fantastic 8 bit classics to the spectacular N64 extravaganzas...

  • Ultimate (Play the Game)

    Another tribute to the early works of the Stamper brothers. Created, quite unusually by a commercial design company. Stylish and consistant layout.

  • Sandy White - an Ant Attack Homepage

    
    Long, long ago in the lost and fabled desert city of Antescher, a tiny hero and heroine, each a mere 14 pixels high, struggled valiantly against a small army of relatively giant Ants ...

  • Uridium, a classic C64 shoot-'em-up game

    A tribute specifically for the C64 version of the game. Has the original advert, retyped manual and info about Mr. Braybrook.

  • Yolkfolk - The Official Dizzy Fansite

    Fandom style content for the Dizzy collection of games from Codemasters. Cute animated gifs of the Dizzy characters included.

  • Manic Miner Technologies

    For Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy fans everywhere.

  • Tolkien computer games for the ZX Spectrum

    Nearly everything that's ever been done on the spectrum that has had anything to do with the Tolkien books.

  • Knight Lore page

    Contains a map of the game and other technical data from Knight Lore.

  • The YS Rock'n'Roll Years

    Collected material from the long-running 'Your Sinclair' magazine. Well put together. Good transition from paper to web-page. A large number of the original reviews have been carefully reproduced.

  • CRASH - The Online Edition

    Very similiar to the above but for 'Crash' magazine.
  
  

• Commercial

  • Sinclair Research

    Minimal site focusing on the latest products. Take a look at Planetoids and Jetpac for the work they published with Psion and Ultimate. World of Spectrum's hardware page contains articles on various Sinclair and 3rd Party products.

  • Rareware

    The people who brought us games like Jetpac, PSSST, Tranz Am and Cookie. The're more well known in recent history as a 2nd party Nintendo developer, producing top-notch Gamecube and Gameboy titles.
    
    You also might want to take a look at Nintendo's website. As well as pages for Mario, Zelda, Metroid and the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo host stuff for a number of Rare's titles like Golden Eye, Donkey Kong 64 and Perfect Dark.
    
    
    
    The best way to play Nintendo games is on Nintendo consoles (NES, Famicom, Gameboy, Gamecube, ...). Thankfully though, some of the early arcades' did manage to make their way on to our humble speccy. Try these licensed ports of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.

  • Codemasters

    Made it big in the low-end budget world with classics like the Dizzy series. Still going strong with full priced games on consoles and Intel boxes. Try Colin McRae DiRT and IndyCar Series.

  • Elite Systems Ltd.

    A veteran developer (and former publisher) of computer and video game software. Try out these ports of Tekkan's Bomb Jack and Sega's Space Harrier for a taste of their warez.

  • java.sun.com

    The Source for Java Technology. Nothing to do with the target hardware this site is emulating but all to do with the building block it's sitting on.
  
  

• Contacts

  • eBay

    From the first teak effect Atari, through PacMan and up to the Megadrive - we're talking Retro gaming and computing. Be it Spectrum or Saturn, whatever blast from the past waggles your joystick, eBay is the place to find it.

  • Retrogames

    For over eight years Retrogames has provided information and news to gamers and collectors of classic videogames and machines. Includes a mail order service for software and hardware across many classic formats (Sinclair, Commodore, Nintendo, Sega, SNK, etc.).

  • Retrogamer

    Retrogamer is a printed fanzine published in Liverpool, UK which is dedicated to classic video games. The zine's definition of classic is any old game (basically 8-bit and 1980's) that made you forget the time or ate all your money at the arcade.

  • JPN Games

    Japanese Videogame Imports in the UK. The place I currently use to pre-order my supply of imports.
  
  

• Users

  • Andrew Joseph

    Yolkfolk - The Official Dizzy Fansite

  • Sandy White

    If you remember Ant Attack then you'll definately want to visit the original author's website.

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