Learning before the Internet

Before we had the web, we had books and magazines.

First steps with your spectrum

Input Magazine

The national pastime of typing in programs, getting them wrong and debugging. The pages stuck together - with hair gel from all the head-scratching.

Sinclair (ab)user

todo: explain the renegade culture of games magazines. And the sarcastic, witty, anarchistic culture of the bedroom programmer. Seeping into the minds of 80s kids and curating the rebellion of the 90s. Gen X owes a lot to hackers who grew up in the 70s.

An introduction to Z80 machine code