Mission
A free reference library for every machine Sinclair made, and for the machines built to be compatible with them. 44,215 entries covering 1959 to 2026, readable by anybody, with no account and no advertising.
The whole range
The Spectrum is the bulk of this, 34,169 of 44,215 entries, and it is not the boundary. The ZX80 and ZX81 are here, so are the QL, the Timex machines, the SAM Coupé, the Jupiter ACE, the Z88, the Eastern European clones and the Spectrum Next. The record starts with Clive Sinclair's own transistor manuals and is still gaining Next releases this year.
Software is only part of it. Hardware, magazines and books are catalogued the same way, which is how 450 magazines and 14,523 issues come to sit beside the games they reviewed.
Including what nobody has found
5,645 entries here are things no copy of which is known to survive. They are listed anyway, with their publishers, their release dates and whatever else was recorded, because a catalogue of only what somebody happens to hold is a stock list rather than a record of what was made. The gaps are treated the same way: shown, counted, and offered to anybody who can close one.
The same goes for mistakes. A release dated 1905 is left where it is and marked as wrong rather than quietly hidden, because an error a reader can see is one a reader can fix.
What is served from here
Box scans, inlays, adverts, magazine covers and loading screens are held here and served from here, so a page never reports your visit to somebody else's server to show you a picture. Loading screens are stored as raw Spectrum display memory, which no browser can render, so each one is decoded into an image on the way in.
Tapes, disks, snapshots and manuals link to the archive that already hosts them. Where a publisher has refused distribution, the entry stays and the download link does not appear. Their decision is recorded in the data and honoured, whether or not anybody would notice.
Anyone can correct it
Every fact on this site can be challenged by whoever is reading it. A correction is proposed with a source, reviewed, and recorded against the person who made it, so every field carries its own history and any change can be traced or undone. People who have been right often enough stop needing review.
Forty years of this scene's knowledge sits in people's memories and in boxes in lofts. Getting it written down is the whole job, and it is not one person's job. The recent changes page shows it happening.
The data belongs to everybody
This catalogue is built on ZXDB, the community database that decades of volunteers have assembled, published under the Open Database Licence. Everything corrected here goes back out under the same terms: the whole catalogue is downloadable in one file, with no account, no rate limit and no conditions attached.
Nothing about the people using the site is in that file. Accounts, what somebody has played, and who made which correction are all withheld, and the export works from a list of what may be published rather than a list of what may not.
What this will never be
No advertising, no tracking, no analytics, and nothing on any page loaded from somebody else's server. The fonts are served from here rather than a font network, avatars are drawn here rather than fetched from Gravatar, share buttons are plain links that send nothing until you click one, and a video stays a still picture until you ask for it. Each of those, done the usual way, would hand your visit to a third party without asking.
Reading will never cost anything and will never need an account. The privacy notice sets out the rest.