All Hallows: Rise of the Pumpkin, John Blythe’s New AGD Speccy Game is Coming!
Something for later in the year ALL HALLOWS – Rise of the Pumpkin. Utilizing Andy Johns code. A barmy bouncing platformer will emerge.. You play the Pumpkin and you have noticed the dark tower as...
View Article3D Monster Maze ZX81 Colour Remake
Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News not long ago, about a colour remake of 3D Monster Maze. For those of you that are not familiar, the game was released way back in 1982, developed from an...
View ArticleZEsarUX 7.0 – New version for the Multiplatform ZX Spectrum Emulator
I recently saw the news about a new release of the ZEsarUX emulator and decided to write a post about it because I think it is one of the best and most versatile emulators around that...
View ArticleNew Russian Speccy Platformer Lost in Worlds Released!
Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer...
View ArticleTank 1990, A New Shoot ’em up for the ZX Spectrum!
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank...
View ArticleDeltaStar Earth Defense for Spectrum Next available now!
A quick update about DeltaStar Earth Defense: Although the plan was to launch the game at the end of July, as we proclaimed here, Adrian Cummings has just announced that due to a series of (good)...
View ArticleFloppyDays Podcast interviews John Grant, developer of the BASIC for the...
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical...
View ArticleSaboteur 1, 2 and 3 Coming to the Nintendo Switch Console
We covered Clive Townsend’s upcoming Saboteur 3 back in June, which I am sure you are all very excited to hear about. It seems there is more good News on the horizon, with an announcement on...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next boards in the assembly line!
Henrique Olifiers has announced on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page that all the 2B boards will be in production starting next week! The 2B is the final version of the board, which receive some...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next Update – Board working 100% and greenlit for mass production!
It is a cloudy Sunday morning here in Ottawa, and that alone sets one’s mood pretty low. Luckily, I’ve opened my emails and saw the Spectrum Next Kickstarter Update #36 in my mailbox. Suddenly, the...
View ArticleForgive me the critics, but the ZX Spectrum keyboard is awesome!
Sort of by accident I’ve create a BASIC game for the ZX Spectrum, very simple concept and not very long. But this article is not about the game, but about the experience. To review the excellent...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next – Another bump in the road
Keyboard Membrane When the Project Update #37 has arrived in my mailbox yesterday, I quickly opened it with my hopes up, looking for a delivery date or something on those lines. Unfortunately, the...
View ArticleUnhallowed – A Spectrum 128 Text Adventure for you Halloween Evening!
Unsurprisingly, the retro community is always presented with Halloween-themed games on October 31st. The one we picked to highlight here is Unhallowed, a traditional text adventure game that runs on...
View ArticleCollector’s Corner: TK-95 – The Brazilian ZX Spectrum, but better
Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which...
View ArticleRetroWorks Mini, a ZX Spectrum Homebrew Game Compilation already available...
After the wonderful release that was The Sword of Ianna, considered the best ZX Spectrum game of 2017 which also had a special edition released as physical copy, RetroWorks is back, this time releasing...
View ArticleQuadron for the ZX Spectrum Review – Was it worth waiting 30 years?
We have seen from other retro-gaming sites like Planeta Sinclair the announcement of a new (old!) game for the ZX Spectrum, Quadron, an action game where you control a robot in charge of clearing the...
View Article‘Quadron’ for the ZX Spectrum gets an update and we interviewed its...
If you have bought Quadron for the ZX Spectrum you might want to know that there are two small updates available. The first includes the loading screen before entering the game menu. The screen was...
View ArticleNetflix’s Black Mirror ‘Bandersnatch’ has an easter egg that is a treat for...
I just finished watching Bandersnatch on Netflix and enjoyed it a lot! If you are a fan of visual novel games you will also enjoy the Black Mirror latest episode, which gives the watcher the power...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next Keyboard is ready for testing
This is a quickie! Last Friday, Henrique Olifiers posted a quick update in the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing us a glorious picture of the ZX Spectrum Next keyboard! We’re now waiting for it...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next – Fully assembled unit’s footage
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. The first photo! Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe...
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