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
Eight chapters (1982-1989) available - total length 1h02m08s LAST UPDATED: 30th January 2010 1982-1989 DVD available!
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30th January 2010 : High quality versions of the regular documentary chapters (1982-1989) are now available via BitTorrent and YouTube. More details on the Documentary Downloads page. 14th January 2010 : The final version of the Christmas Special is now available for download via both WWW and BitTorrent methods, and the YouTube videos have been refreshed. Get yourself to the Downloads page and help yourself! 31st December 2009 : Documentary Christmas Special now out on YouTube! More details about the 40-minute-long experience on its own What's New page. 1st December 2009 : The countdown has ended, and December has begun. Later on this month will see the release of the documentary Christmas Special, but right now I want to give ZXmas a jump start with the launch of my brand new Advent Calendar! Each day there's a page full of festive Speccy memories from my own Speccy Christmases, together with Vox Pops from players in the Speccy scene both past and present where they share their own memories. I've also raided YouTube for old television and other clips, and there's a rather eclectic mix of clips in the Advent Calendar as a result. And to round things off, there are also free Virtual Advent Calendar Chocolates - completely genuine cheap tacky synthetic chocolates that most Advent Calendars had when I grew up, and these have the added bonus of being completely fat-free! I hope you enjoy this ocean of nostalgia to wallow in, and keep an eye out for the documentary Christmas Special later this month! 16th August 2009 : Fancy making this December a huge online retro event to remember? Read more about ZXmas here and see if it tickles your fancy!
