Old Computer Challenge - Modern web for the ZX Spectrum
2025/10/19
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Last year I participated in the OCC challenge and between work and personal life I totally forgot about it, luckily I saw a post online of someone doing the challenge and remembered about it. I didn’t want to miss this year challenge as it was fun learning something new last year, so hopefully its not too late.
This years challenge it was a DIY, you could create your own OCC challenge. So I thought it’d be fun to try to recreate a website and navigation for the ZX Spectrum using BASIC and the limited graphics capabilities of the computer.
Well, in this case the hardware is the ZX Spectrum, though I must say that I used an emulator (Fuse) to test and run my code.
The ZX Spectrum image resolution is 256x192 pixels, so the space is very limited. The colour palette is made up of 8 colors, with a “brighter” variation.
With this in mind I had to design a website for the ZX Spectrum and how you’d navigate with it.
So given the hardware and limitations I thought that I’d first do Google, since they have a simple design and is I’d say well known by everyone.
The image below, is what Googles homepage would look like.
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