Mikie, Hyper Sports), The Oliver Twins (the Dizzy series), Clive Townsend (Saboteur), Sandy White (Ant Attack; I, of the Mask), Pete Cooke (Tau Ceti), Mike Singleton (The Lords of Midnight, War in Middle Earth), and Alan Cox. Although the 48K Spectrum's audio hardware was not as capable as chips in other popular 8-bit home computers of the era, computer musicians David Whittaker and Tim Follin produced notable multi-channel music for it. Jeff Minter ported some of his VIC-20 games to the ZX Spectrum. Reception BYTE in January 1983 acknowledged the appeal of the Spectrum's low £125 price to British consumers and called it a "promising machine". It criticised the keyboard; "inexpensive or not, the ... layout is impossible to justify ... poorly designed in several respects". The review was sceptical of the computer's appeal to American consumers if sold for —"hardly competitive with comparable low-cost American units"—and expected that Timex would sell it for . Legacy On 23 April 2012, a Google doodle honoured the 30th anniversary of the Spectrum. As it coincided with St George's Day, the logo was of St George fighting a dragon in the style of a Spectrum loading screen. In December 2018, one of the alternate endings in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch included the main character playing data tape audio that, when loaded into a ZX Spectrum software emulator, generates a QR code leading to a website with a playable version of the Nohzdyve game featured in the episode. Some programmers have continued to code for the platform by using emulators on PCs. Since 2020, there has been a museum, LOAD ZX Spectrum, dedicated to the ZX Spectrum and other Sinclair products (as well as Timex, Investrónica and many others), located in Cantanhede, Portugal. See also List of computer system emulators#Sinclair ZX Spectrum and clones List of ZX Spectrum games ZX Spectrum graphic modes ZX Spectrum character set Contended memory References Additional sources External links ZX Spectrum BASIC manual JSSpeccy 3 ZX Spectrum emulator in the browser Computer-related introductions in 1982 Computers designed in the United Kingdom English inventions Home computers Products and services discontinued in 1992 Sinclair Research Z80-based home computers ZX Spectrum