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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.
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Too busy? Have a quick shot of YS with the YS Daily Fix!
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Click on a number to go to that issue
Specials: 2004 RetroGamer Special
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You can now get email and RSS alerts to monitor these updates.
You can also get other alerts, including Tipshop and Sinclair-related videos appearing on Google Video and YouTube.
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6th February 2013 : Maybe just resting, and not dead after all. Things are afoot - hopefully something new will be online here by the Summer. You can probably thank Speccy Nation for that :)
 24th September 2012 : Remember the 2004 special YS94 issue? The editor of that, Dan Whitehead, has just published a book called Speccy Nation (£3.99 paperback, £1.02 on Kindle, order either from Amazon) which details the peculiarly British experimentation and innovation in computer games design during the Spectrum years. It's a very fun book to read, and you can read my review of the book here where I show you just how good it is, together with how the book gave me a major epiphany.
 24th June 2012 : A bit of news for those who like to follow my work - Christmas UK has now evolved into an all-singing all-dancing website which contains all that the Facebook and Twitter feeds did and more. Currently in a beta phase, but it's been fun to play around with CSS3, jQuery, PHP, etc. Bit of a change from this site, which is mainly static HTML 3.2! The Christmas UK website will be at full tilt in October, but is currently in a nice holding pattern whilst the Christmas 2012 run-up starts to rumble.
This will be the last time I mention Christmas UK - it seems to excite my stalker a little too much than is healthy for him (hello Andrew!). On the YSRnRY side of things, the YS Daily Fix is also on the YSRnRY Facebook and Twitter feeds, and Facebook users are also treated to a daily month-by-month lookback at YS and its rival magazines to give a background to the industry at this time of year - and it only contains a small amount of bile about CRASH turning into pamphlet!
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