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2026-05-07

2020s, 2025, estonia, specscii, zx spectrum.

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Мозгошум (22. Шум / Noise) by moroz1999, 2025. ZX Spectrum.

2026-05-07

2020s, 2024, Russia, specscii, zx spectrum.

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From SPECSCII Art by UriS, 2024.

2026-05-07

2020s, 2026, Russia, specscii, zx spectrum.

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h!tart by bfox, 2026. This is Specscii, meaning it’s the ASCII of the ZX Spectrum. 128 character font, 8 colours, and a resolution of 32×24.

h/t: SiXX

2023-06-15

1980s, 1983, animation, poetry, portugal, specscii, zx spectrum, ZX81.

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Computer Poetry by Silvestre Pestana, consists of three poems. Computer Poetry To: E. Melo e Castro (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Henry Chopin (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Julian Beck (ZX Spectrum, 1983).

Here is the third one in action, running on a ZX Spectrum emulator, courtesy of oficinastk.

The work was also featured in a more recent exhibition by the artist (techno-form, 2016).

Read more here.

2018-06-14

1980s, 1988, basic, code, patterns, poland, specscii, zx spectrum.

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“From a 1988 Polish computer magazine” / @mwichary.

2015-05-28

2010s, 2015, animation, scene, zx spectrum.

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Snippet from Stellar – a bassy ambienty ZX Spectrum demo by Kpacku 2015. Full video here. h/t: 4mat

2013-12-20

2010s, game, teletext, uk, zx spectrum.

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MERVIN AND MARVIN’S TELETEXT ADVENTURE by Chris Young for the ZX Spectrum, via. Play it here!

2013-03-12

2010s, ascii, game, specscii, zx spectrum.

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LumASCII (ZX Spectrum) by Bob Smith (2012). It took 9 months to code it, since there weren’t many tools for the Speccy to work with “colour ASCII”. Longplay version here.
Thanks to Akira and Ilkke for the heads up.

2012-05-04

2000s, 2007, animation, demoscene, font, Russia, scene, zx spectrum.

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bl by Triebkraft, 2007. ZX Spectrum demo with a custom font, it seems.