One notable tweet was left by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who said that he "loved that computer." Sinclair's daughter, Belinda Sinclair, called her father an "amazing person" who was "always interested in everything." Sinclair's revolutionary home consoles were noted for being some of the first systems at the time to be available for under £100 or $137 US, particularly with the ZX80, which was named after the year it was created. The ZX Spectrum +2 was Amstrads first Sinclair branded machine, coming shortly after their purchase of the Spectrum range and 'Sinclair' brand in 1986. Many other video game media outlets and famous people have been taking to Twitter to express their sadness over the loss of the inventor. RELATED: 1980s Commodore 64 Game Comes to Steam To this day, nearly half of all gamers use home PCs, and it could be argued that the Surrey-born tech wizard helped pioneer this. v.1.4: ZX Spectrum 128K PreProduction 4.02: ZX Spectrum 128K. The emulator by Cesar Hernandez is already updated with the current WIP hardware sprites implementation, 7MHz mode and SD card support, becoming a solid platform to start developing for the Next right away. ZX Spectrum 16/48K Prototype: ZX Spectrum 16/48K: ZX Spectrum Beckman Innovation AB Nordisk : ZX Spectrum 48K Spanish: ZX Interface 1 v.1: ZX Interface 1 v.2: ZX Spectrum 128K Derby dev. With the ZX Spectrum being one of his most successful inventions, the computer and video games industry had an influential system which has become something of a legacy to this day, with a museum dedicated to the Spectrum and other Sinclair inventions. One of the best Speccy emulators, ZEsarUX, features support for the Spectrum Next. Back in the early days of gaming and home consoles, Sinclair was instrumental in making computers in the home more commercial, particularly in Britain where he was born and raised. In a report posted on The Guardian website, Sir Clive Sinclair has died after a long illness. Sadly, news reports have confirmed that the technology innovator has passed away at the age of 81. YouTuber GhostLost shares with us his loaded Hyperspin Pack for the ZX Spectrum (aka, The Speccy) The Spectrum was among the first mainstream-audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA.
The most influential people in the gaming industry in this day and age likely owe a debt to the entrepreneur, with many figures cutting their teeth in the industry on the 8-bit machine. To many perhaps older gamers, or those who know a lot about the history of modern technology, the name Clive Sinclair will be synonymous with the ZX Spectrum system that helped bring home computers to the forefront back in 1982. Despite improving and successfully commercializing the ZX Spectrum+ in 1984 and the ZX Spectrum 128K in 1985, there were some unsuccessful projects like Sinclair QL or the electric car Sinclair C5.These made Sinclair Research not profitable and in 1986, it was bought by Amstrad Consumer Electronics, one competitor company.
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