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- Mat Simpson's anally retentives retro games home:
a general retro games site, but has some Speccy stuff including a
couple of Mac fonts, an animated .GIF of Jet Set Willy and some info
on some people and companies (eg Ultimate and Imagine).
- The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2000:
the latest installment of fantastic programs from the readers of the world's greatest newsgroup.
The comp.sys.sinclair Folklore FAQ
is an introduction to the common posters and expressions seen in
comp.sys.sinclair.
- The Dot Eaters & The Number Crunchers
has a moderate amount of Sinclair information in it, and may have PDF
versions of the Speccy manual in both English and German by the time
you read this. Mostly in German.
- El Mundo del Spectrum: a Spanish site with a fair amount of stuff on it, including Miner Willy's life history, the "Everyone's A Wally" music, demos and some pokes.
- Adam Moss has written a plug-in
to allow the mighty Gimp to load
.SCR files.
- Glenn Flood's House of Flood
has a collection of his art, including two cassette inlay designs he did
for Quicksilva.
- Philip Bee's I've Started So I'll Finish
has a large collection of interviews with various Spectrum progammers, and also
a copy of Bob Pape's
'Loading a Spectrum Screen' screensaver.
- Staffan Vilcan's Sinclair Nostalgia Products: a screensaver, a couple of counters, some MIDI files of Spectrum music and a few snaps.
- Sinclair Research now
have a small Web site; it's basically devoted to their current products,
but there is at least a brief mention of the Speccy on the links page.
- Nick Savoiu has a list of links on his Sinclair ZX Spectrum Switchboard
that haven't been updated for some time, and has an animated 'busy' cursor for Windows 95/NT
on this page which is quite
well done and worth a go; co-author of WinXZX.
Spectrum SCREEN$
from Andrew Laggan is a huge collection of screenshots,
loading screens and scanned artwork from Speccy (and other!) games.
- Peter Mella's The Spectrum Site: a brief introduction to the Speccy and its emulation scene, as well as an interview with Matthew Smith.
- The Spectrum Webring
- go on, take a guess! A full list
of members is also available.
Tayles' ZX Spectrum Golden Years
has a nice load of information on the Speccy and its history,
including interviews with Doug Burns and Jonathan Smith.
Jack Boatwright's TIMEXsinclair Showcase
has some stuff on the American variants of the Speccy and the
peripherals available for them.
The main unique content at ZX Specticle
is a collection of interviews with some famous Spectrum personalities,
including Mike Follin.
- Andrew Herbert's ZX Spectrum Image Applet
is a little Java applet which pretends to load any GIF or PNG image as a SCREEN$.

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