If you are from the United States and of a certain age, it is very likely you owned some form of Commodore computer. Outside the US, that same demographic was likely to own an Amstrad. The Z80-based ...

If Clive Sinclair’s genius in consumer electronics was in using ingenious hacks to make cheaper parts do greater things, then his Amstrad competitor Alan Sugar’s was in selling decade-old technology ...

The Amstrad CPC has turned 40. If you were ‘there at the time’, we can only apologise for making you feel ancient. Or, you know, spend some time celebrating a British classic – the home micro that ...

British Sky Broadcasting Group, the U.K.'s dominant pay television provider, said Tuesday that it will buy computer and electronic hardware manufacturer Amstrad for 125 million pounds ($253 million) ...

Broadcaster BSkyB is buying Amstrad, the venerable computing name that once made up to a quarter of the European PC business — but the deal is all about set-top boxes, including the popular Sky+ ...

Two great names from the prehistory of video games are set for revival, as ailing consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad seeks to buy the copyright to Sinclair Spectrum games. Amstrad bought ...

In 1989, UK computing icon Amstrad was poised for world domination and, if not for a product recall, it could be as big as Apple today, according to Nick Hewer, Countdown presenter and formerly Alan ...

Anyone out there with an old forgotten Amstrad computer in their attic – you’re about to have an 8-bit of luck. Because the man who sold it to you might be offering to buy it back. Amstrad founder ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

When Amstrad launched its word processor 30 years ago, writers were initially resistant – processing was for peas, not words. But many soon saw the benefits of life without Tipp-Ex Even by the ...

LORD Alan Sugar insists his Amstrad products were better than the “Apple rubbish” on the market today. The British business tycoon, 75, says his 1980s tech lasted the test of time, whereas the likes ...