Domark’s founders and joint managing directors, Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan come from a marketing background — the duo met while they were working at a London advertising agency.

In Kevin Toms’s Software Star, released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher. You name new games, decide how to promote them (including whether to lead with Hype or Hones…

This month sees the latest BetaBasic newsletter, number 12. There is a long, interesting and detailed discussion of the author’s attempts to draw animated three-dimensional cubes on the Spectrum scree...

By the time you read this, Alphabatim’s first game should be on the streets. When we saw Robot Messiah most of the screens had been committed to Spectrum memory — but the finished game was still a cou...

Newsfield was hosting a party in the famous Camden Palace disco to launch a new magazine to advertisers. Readers of Newsfield’s computer magazines were invited to join in the fun at the LM Launch Part...

For me this is probably the least interesting CRASH cover, and certainly a disappointment from Ian Craig after the previous month’s.

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982 - 2027)

No sooner do I mention Banner/Interceptor than up they pop after a year spent in the wilderness. All I can say is welcome back, all is forgiven, and don’t get too worried about this review — anything ...

As accurately reported in Issue 55 of CRASH, the PC Show was the first public unveiling of the new Sinclair machine, or series it now seems.

Way back in February 84 we reviewed a graphics utility by the name of PAINTBOX.

The ‘Par 3’ in the title refers to the three versions of Leader Board which make up the compilation. Neither World Class Leader Board nor Leader Board Tournament were reviewed in CRASH, but the origi...

A few people have asked where the Rainbow/Rosie and Jim/Sooty videos have gone, and outside a quick Bsky post, I never really went into detail about why they were removed from the channel and why they...

Yoshihisa Kishimoto and Technos set some key standards in early beat-’em-ups with 熱血硬派くにおくん, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun or, as it was known in the West, Renegade. Having launched Kunio-kun as the main…

A diminished and inverted JON ‘NORMAN’ BATES stabs Simon N Goodwin in the shower — no, sorry, discovers Tectrics’s computerised dictionary of chords, and previews software for the Ram Music Machine

POOR OLD Dave Baxter at Rainbow Arts in Birmingham has been having a bad old time of it recently.

It was Showtime again in September, and off we all trotted to the Personal Computer World Show to person the Newsfield stand, potter round the show fearlessly seeking out the latest products for revie...

Murderers, muggers, punks and other not very nice people fill the streets. It’s 1995 and the public are being held hostage in their own homes. Who can rid us of these hooligans, guttersnipes and lover...

Where are we? Ah, yes — October (in CRASH time — August in real time).