World of Spectrum

World of Spectrum

Infobox Website
name = World of Spectrum
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url = http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
commercial = No
type = Retrocomputing
registration = Forum posting only
owner = Martijn van der Heide
author = Martijn van der Heide
launch date = 1995
current status = Active
revenue =

World of Spectrum is a website devoted to cataloging and archiving material for the ZX Spectrum home computer popular in the 1980s, and has been officially endorsed by Amstrad which holds the copyright to the ZX Spectrum brand. [cite web | url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/permits/endorsement.html | title=Endorsement | accessdate=2008-08-04 | last=van der Heide | first=Martijn | work=World of Spectrum] It was started by Martijn van der Heide in 1995 as a website dedicated to hosting Spectrum games, but grew into hosting anything and everything that was remotely connected to the ZX Spectrum.

The site contains an extensive database of information about games, utilities, books, hardware, magazines, adverts and relevent companies. [ .Net Magazine, June 2002] [The Daily Mirror, 23 October 2001] In December 2005 "Retro Gamer" wrote "World of Spectrum is not just the best Speccy site on the Web, but arguably the best retro resource full stop." [Retro Gamer, issue 19, December 2005] From the FAQ: "The WoS is the world's biggest and most popular archive of Spectrum related material." [cite web | url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/WoSFAQ.html#1A | title=THE WOS FAQ | accessdate=2007-11-24 | last=van der Heide | first=Martijn | work=World of Spectrum] As of September 2008, that catalog includes 18,000 software titles, 500 hardware items, 1,000 books and more than 350,000 references, which can be accessed using a custom built search engine; "Sinclair Infoseek". [cite web | url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi | title=Sinclair Infoseek | accessdate=2008-09-06 | last=van der Heide | first=Martijn | work=World of Spectrum] The collection of Spectrum related magazines includes CRASH and Sinclair User, both scanned page-by-page.

One of the websites goals is to obtain distribution permission from copyright holders of the software kept in its archives, and has received hundreds of permissions to date. [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/permits/individuals.html] In 2003 the Interactive Digital Software Association filed a complaint against the site for copyright infringement, but this was later retracted. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/03/07/games_anti_piracy_bot_fingers/]

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External links

* [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]


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