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Welcome to the ZX Spectrum Reviews website. The purpose of this site is to retain
in ASCII format the review text from the major Sinclair magazines of the 8-bit era
in a format that (eventually) any developer will be able to request via a simple
Webservice.
As it stands, only the Crash reviews are present, and they are more or less complete.
Only the picture descriptions text remains.
To dive straight into the database, simply click on the Search link above and enter
some criteria!
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Speccy development community as a
whole with their invaluable resources. If you're interested in anything Speccy-wise,
I'd advise you to check out the following sites:
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World of Spectrum
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The World Of Spectrum site is THE site on the internet for anything Speccy related.
The hoster, Martijn van der Heide, has done an incredible job attempting to preserve
just about everything to do with Sinclair/The Speccy. If you want to know something
about the Spectrum, WOS should always be your first point of call.
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Crash Online
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Crash Online is a site dedicated to the famous Speccy magazine of the 80's and 90's.
It was (in my opinion) the greatest of the Speccy magazines, and one of the reasons
why I focused on getting the Crash reviews into the database first. During the first
days of creating the database, Crash Online was always my first point of call for
copying and pasting the review text as I did not own the magazines, to which I am
eternally grateful to Matthew. However, since the Crash scans (see below) appeared,
I've been able to OCR all of the review pages instead. Needless to say, Crash Online
has a great many reviews already and they are much more lovingly formatted than
those you will find here!!!
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Mort's Crash
Scans
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I owe Mort an enormous debt of gratitude for having the time and patience to scan
every single page of Crash and flog them on a few CD's. The database this site runs
off would be nowhere near as approaching completion if it were not for Mort's hard
work. Yes, the scans are available from WOS to download (subject to FTP usage rules)
but I would encourage anyone who's interested to give Mort some cash for his tireless
work.
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ZX Spectrum Games
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A must for fans of ZX Spectrum games. Features reviews of classic games (and some
hidden gems), videos, a quiz and interviews with Spectrum programming legends.
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