[FAQ]
[Frequently Asked Questions] [Resources] [Emulators] [Where Is...?] [File Formats] [Technical Information] [Pinouts] [Acknowledgements]

SPECCY RESOURCES

This page last updated on 21 March 1998

[FTP] [Info] [Games] [Games Help] [Authors] [Search] [Mags] [Misc] [News] [IRC] [BBS] [User Groups]

If you find an address in here that doesn't work any more, please let me know - and let me know if you find one that isn't listed here too!

This list is ordered by the sites' domain names, so don't feel bad if your site is listed after one you think isn't as good. If anyone thinks my description of their site is incorrect or unfair, again, let me know.

One thing I have noticed after around three years of monitoring the growth of Spectrum-related web sites is that an awful lot of people get their net connection and have the bright idea of making a Speccy web page. Unfortunately, most of them then soon find the multitude of pages that already exist, and don't bother to update their own early efforts; not even to remove the usual promises of future greatness. Therefore, this list now mentions where a page has not been updated for some time. If I've mistakenly listed your page as being dead, let me know.

FTP SITES

If you're after games, emulators or anything Spectrum-related, there are a number of FTP sites worth visiting, and new ones spring up now and again... bear in mind that many of the sites containing games are very busy, so you're better off trying at quieter times (e.g. very late at night in the UK), and don't use a web browser - use a proper FTP client. This section used to be considerably larger, but many of the sites no longer existed or no longer contained the Sinclair-related material that they once had, and have been removed them from this list.

Back to top

REFERENCE MATERIAL

Back to top

GAMES

Back to top

GAMES INFO/HINTS/CHEATS/POKES

Back to top

EMULATOR/UTILITY/GAME AUTHORS

Back to top

SPECCY-RELATED SEARCH ENGINES

Note: generic web search engines no longer listed here. There are so many now!

Back to top

MAGAZINES

Back to top

MISCELLANEOUS

Back to top

UPDATED NEWS GROUPS

If you don't have Usenet access, comp.sys.sinclair has a mailing list mirror:
Send mail to lserv@psg.com with the following in the BODY of the message:

subscribe sincnews yourusername@your.domain

Don't put anything else in the body of the message.

Back to top

INTERNET RELAY CHAT

The channels #spectrum and #sinclair are now officially registered with DALnet; here are some DALnet servers:

liberator.dal.net (UK) (port 7000)
irc.dal.net (USA) (port 6667)
igc.dal.net (USA) (port 6667)

If you are interested, please email Theo Develegas (his IRC nick is _Wind_), so that he can fix some online meetings (though we haven't heard from Theo in some time so he may have moved on).

Additionally, in Poland the the #z80 channel can be found on the following servers (default port), and you'll usually find someone about between 12:00 and 16:00 CET:

poznan.irc.pl
krakow.irc.pl
warszawa.irc.pl

Back to top

BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS

Back to top

USER GROUPS

Back to top