The Sinclair ZX81 was the precursor to the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1981, it had 1K of RAM and 8K of ROM, which held BASIC; user input was through a membrane keyboard. Its major attraction was price--for a mere fifty pounds, the system was a steal.
 | ZX81 0.9.3 beta. |
This ZX81 emulator is still beta, and rough in a few points. But it is overall an accurate replica of the ZX81 hardware.
 | of ZX81 running BASIC. |
 | the home page of Richard Kurz's ZX81 emulator. |
 | to Richard Kurz, author of the ZX81 emulator. |
 | zxsp 0.7.0. |
ZX80 and ZX81 support has been added to zxsp, a Sinclair Spectrum emulator, with the introduction of version 0.7.0.
 | the home page of zxsp. |
 | to Günter Woigk, author of zxsp. |
ZX81 Software
 | an archive of ZX81 software. Link broken. |