zxdesk: A Graphical Desktop for the ZX Spectrum Goes Open Source
graemep · hn · 2026-09-19
A Hacker News post shares zxdesk, an open-source GitHub project that implements a graphical desktop environment for the ZX Spectrum, the classic 8-bit home computer. It's a retro-computing engineering effort rather than an AI project, but a fun look at pushing GUIs onto extremely constrained vintage hardware.
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