With hindsight, the machine lacked the RAM ( a typical program would need to fit in only around 20 kB once display memory is subtracted ) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

This gives the effect of a simple toggle speaker similar to that seen in the 48 kB Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.

One nibble of such a byte then controlled the foreground color, and the other nibble controlled the background color, a system very similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in fact in the 256x192 mode the display mode was virtually identical to the video of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

On the Sinclair ZX Spectrum it is accessed by and.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

In the private home computer market, where games were a significant driver, the Dragon suffered due to its graphical capabilities, which were inferior to contemporary machines such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro.

Both had been on the design team for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of R-Type was awarded 9 / 10 in the January 1989 issue of Your Sinclair

The Sinclair QL ( for Quantum Leap ), was a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as the successor to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Microdrives had been introduced for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in July 1983, although the QL used a different logical tape format.

Physically, the QL was the same black colour as the preceding ZX81 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum models, but introduced a new angular styling theme and keyboard design which would later be seen in the ZX Spectrum +.

* RWAP Adventures-Adventure programs for the Sinclair QL and ZX Spectrum

Some software, especially games for the MSX, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and other Z80 based computers, took Z80 assembly optimization to rather extreme levels, employing the duplicated registers among other things.

The same slot bus was continued on the ZX81, and later the ZX Spectrum, which encouraged a small cottage industry of expansion devices, including memory ( Sinclair produced RAM expansion packs for the ZX80: the original ZX80 RAM Pack held either 1, 2 or 3 KB of static RAM ; a later model held 16 KB, using dynamic RAM chips ( DRAM )), printers, and even floppy drives.

The ZX Spectrum ( pronounced " Zed-Ex ") is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd.

Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black-and-white of its predecessor, the ZX81.

* Booster Sinclair Munchapper ( voiced by Stephen Furst ): A huge dinosaur-like former janitor from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad ( a play on the name of the Joad family, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath ).

Barrogill passed out of the Sinclair family in 1889, on the death of the 15th Earl, and in 1928 it was purchased by Captain Imbert-Terry.

New characters continued to be added to the series, with the Derwin family, comprising the censorious Fern Derwin ( Belinda Sinclair ) her easy-going taxi-driver husband Max ( Nick Stringer ) and their rebellious foster son Arlo Dean ( Ash Newman ), joining the storyline.

It was highly praised by Sinclair Lewis, among others, and was inspired by Richardson's own family experiences.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and the fifth generation of the Sinclair family to represent the Caithness area in the House of Commons.

The show centers on the Sinclair family: Earl Sinclair, the father ; Fran Sinclair, the mother ; Robbie Sinclair, the son ; Charlene Sinclair, the daughter ; Baby Sinclair, the baby ; and Grandmother Phillips.

The focus of the show's plot is the Sinclair family: Earl, Fran, Robbie, Charlene and Baby.

The Sinclair family members all appear to belong to wildly different species of dinosaurs.

The village has a long connection with the Sinclair family, known locally as St Clere.

Thurso is also the name of the viscountcy held by the Sinclair family in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Historians Mark Oxbrow, Ian Robertson, Karen Ralls and Louise Yeoman have each made it clear that the Sinclair family had no connection with the mediaeval Knights Templar.

Clair ") of the Sinclair family, a noble family descended in part from Norman knights from the commune of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in northern France, using the standard designs the medieval architects made available to him.

The purpose of the college was to celebrate the Divine Office throughout the day and night and also to celebrate Holy Mass for all the faithful departed, including the deceased members of the Sinclair family.

After the Scottish Reformation ( 1560 ) Roman Catholic worship in the Chapel was brought to an end, although the Sinclair family continued to be Roman Catholics until the early 18th century.

Historian Dr. Louise Yeoman, along with other mediaeval scholars, says the Knights Templar connection is false, and points out that Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair so that Mass could be said for the souls of his family.

A later William Sinclair of Roslin became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and, subsequently, several other members of the Sinclair family have held this position.

This family was in turn replaced by the descendants of the Mormaers of Strathearn and later still by the Sinclair family, during whose time Orkney passed to Scots control.

It was apparently designed as a low-cost alternative to Tandy's own TRS-80 Color Computer to compete with entry-level machines that had previously dominated the market, such as the Commodore VIC-20 and Sinclair ZX81.

Within the wide diversity of home computers that arose during the 1980s and early 1990s, many machines such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 ( C64 ) had borders around their screen, which worked as a frame for the display area.

This layout dates back to Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81 and Sinclair Spectrum games: the original Sinclair machines had cursor keys on the top row, keys 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Timex Sinclair released four computers, all of them based ( to some extent ) on Sinclair Research's existing machines.

The game was written in 68000 assembler, later versions were implemented using a cut-down 68000 virtual machine even on lesser machines like the z80 based Sinclair Spectrum.

They also assembled kits for people without soldering skills, especially the " junior Computer " from Elektor ( a copy of the KIM-1 ), and the ZX80 from Sinclair.

The Spectrum version was also voted number 58 in the Your Sinclair Readers ' Top 100 Games of All Time.

South African poet Sinclair Beiles also used this technique and co-authored Minutes To Go.

The Sinclair QL ( though the QL was a sister machine to the ICL One Per Desk, which also used a 68008 ) was the most commercially important.

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

His frustration with the Sinclair would also lead to his purchasing a more standard PC in later years on which he would develop what would become the Linux operating system.

The Secretary also negotiated leases for the Teapot Dome reserves to Harry Sinclair of the Consolidated Oil Corp. in return for guaranteed oil reserves to the credit of the government.

Sinclair also released the ZX Interface 2 which added two joystick ports and a ROM cartridge port.

Edward has also been portrayed by Ronald Sinclair in Tower of London, a 1939 horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III, and by Eugene Martin in the 1962 remake.

" Thoreau also influenced many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, E. B.

In 1931, Stanolind completed its acquisition of Sinclair Pipeline and also acquired the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company.

Sinclair C5s have also been converted to jet engine power.

The company also sold the Lattice C compiler for the Sinclair QL and the Atari ST and range of other languages ( e. g. Pascal, BCPL ) for m68k-based computers.

Heartfield also created book jackets for authors such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for such noted playwrights as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

The origin of the name has also been confused with that Patrick Sinclair, a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outlet of the Pine River.

He was replaced by two keyboard players: Dave Sinclair ( cousin of Richard and also from Caravan ) and Jan Schelhaas ( also of Caravan ).

The origin of the name has also been confused with that Patrick Sinclair, a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outlet of the Pine River.

Students in the school are also called Main Streeters, or Streeters, which comes from the novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

Englewood is also home to a satellite campus of Sinclair Community College.

Bevo is also mentioned in the short story " The Killers " by Ernest Hemingway ; as well as in Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.