Creating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega

by Clive Sinclair

Creating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega describes how the four founders of Retro Computers came together to create a unique games the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega.
Sir Clive Sinclair, the world famous inventor, caused a technological revolution in the early 1980s when he launched the ZX Spectrum, a low-cost colour home computer that found its way into millions of households throughout the UK, Spain, Russia and many other countries across the world. The Spectrum proved so successful that more than twenty thousand games, utilities and educational titles were written for it, many of which are remembered fondly to this very day.
When the Retro Computers team released the Vega, a modern interpretation of that original ZX Spectrum, one thousand of these much-loved games were pre-loaded on the console; obtaining the rights to these is just one part of the fascinating story that this book the genesis, conception and development of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega.

104 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2015

About the author

Clive Sinclair is a British author born in 1940. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and holds a doctorate from the University of East Anglia. He has taught there and also at the University of Uppsala, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where his son was born.
In 1983 he was selected as one of the original Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in London with the artist, Haidee Becker.