Every owner of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in any of its forms, should remember one of the most entertaining computer magazines ever published: Your Sinclair. YS ran as Your Spectrum for a couple of years before being relaunched as Your Sinclair at Christmas 1985.
YS ran until 1993 and outlasted all the other Spectrum magazines that were sold at the time. During this time various breakthroughs in game design arose that we now all take for granted in these days of multi-megabyte memory, multicolour graphics home computer systems.
The YS Rock'n'Roll Years aims to relive those days, so sit back, relax, and indulge yourself into some serious nostalgia.
The Documentary Videos
Seven chapters (1982-1988) available - total length 54m35s LAST UPDATED: 7th May 2008 - 1989 out in June. Probably.
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YRUA?
21st March 2008 : It's taken me ten years to get around to it, but I've finally added cross-references between the YSRnRY and Jim Grimwood's site dedicated to Your Spectrum, YRUA?. You'll find relevant links scattered throughout the issue summary pages and the "YS Cross-references" box at the bottom of each review and preview (including the Complete Guides and Top 100). You'll notice that Your Spectrum is refered to as YR - this is a convention I've pinched from Jim to differentiate the two different YS magazines. The theory goes that Your Spectrum came before Your Sinclair, and YR comes before YS, and suddenly it all makes sense. And YRUA? Aside from being a question, that means Your Spectrum Unofficial Archive. I'm not sure how much further to take the cross-linking, so I'm open to suggestions. There's plenty I could do, but would be non-trivial to implement. In other news, I've added the July 1986 issue of ZX Computing to the Virtual News Stand. 9th March 2008 : Computer Gamer added to the Virtual News Stand. 8th March 2008 : The Virtual News Stand expands - now each issue summary page (e.g. this one) now has a set of cover images of the rival magazines that came out during that month. Click on a cover and you'll be taken to the World Of Spectrum's magazine viewer for that magazine issue - including for the YS cover on that page! 7th March 2008 : Minor change - the pairing up between the YSRnRY database, SPOT*ON database and WOS database has been tightened up so that ratings from other magazines for each game are now reported accurately. 1st March 2008 : Introducing the "Virtual News Stand"! OK, so it's a rubbish name, but the new feature's quite nifty in that it ties in the magazine page image scan archive on the World Of Spectrum website with this site. Along the bottom of (almost) every review and preview on this site is a virtual copy of other magazines opened at the page of their own review or preview - just click on the page you want to view to see it full-size. And if there's an HTML equivalent somewhere on the web (in this case, YRUA?, SUMO and Crash Online), there's a hyperlink to it below the page image. The only limitation is that if there's no page image scan on WOS, then it won't get linked to from this website - yet. Enjoy!
8th March 2008 : The Virtual News Stand expands - now each issue summary page (e.g. 
