

The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and The ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81.

Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as Home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Online emulated version of The Hobbit was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal

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