Rare Sinclair ZX Spectrum Prototype donated to the Centre for Computing History
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, has received, among others, a rare and valuable donation to be added to its collection. The ZX Spectrum prototype was donated by Kate and John Grant...
View ArticleWith only 377 bytes, ChesSkelet might have broken the World Record for...
Inspired by many previous chess games like David Horne’s ZX81 1K Chess (672 bytes), Olivier Poudade’s BootChess (487 bytes), Óscar Toledo Nanochess (392 bytes) and others, Alex Garcia has released what...
View ArticleBASIC 10Liners 2019 – Results are out leaving only one open question: “How is...
With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced. If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019...
View ArticleZX Spectrum game ‘Quadron’ has been released on cassette!
Quadron is an excellent ZX Spectrum game that was released as a digital download last December, written by Andy “Cosmium” Beale in 1986-87 and never released until last year! If you missed that or...
View ArticleMage Rage Top-Down Maze Shooter Coming to the ZX Spectrum
Andy Green recently announced a top-down maze shooter called Mage Rage, which will be coming to the ZX Spectrum. Developed by John Davies and Andy using AGDx Mini, you take control of Mercure the Mage,...
View ArticleBruce Lee RX for ZX Spectrum Released!
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft,...
View ArticleAnother publisher is born. Bitnamic Software aims the Portuguese and...
We are indeed living the golden era of retro computing and retro gaming. The retro gaming enthusiast has already access to great brand-new titles through the likes of RGCD and Psytronik, to mention...
View ArticleJoe Blob – 1989 unreleased ZX Spectrum game gets a remastered release!
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and...
View ArticleTreasure Quest by Bitnamic Software proves “blocky” games can still be fun
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In...
View ArticleYazzie – New platform game released for the ZX Spectrum was created in only 6...
Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by...
View ArticleZX Parachute – When Nintendo Game & Watch meets the ZX Spectrum
ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to...
View ArticleZX Spectrum Next is about to ship! Time to make sure it will find you home!
In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX...
View ArticleGreat looking multi-format graphic adventure game open for pre-order
Puddle Soft is pleased to announce that their graphic horror adventure game, The Curse of Rabenstein is now open for pre-order from Poly.Play. The Curse of Rabenstein is a new story by award-winning...
View ArticleBitnamic Software announces `Laserbirds` – a new game for the ZX Spectrum
Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a...
View ArticleAn emotional trip to the ’80s: Developing Games for the Speccy
It is always great to see when an article about retro gaming hits a major outlet. Yesterday, I found an article about game development for the ZX Spectrum on Gamasutra, the most prestigious game...
View ArticleCommunity Showcase: André Leão talks about Planeta Sinclair and his passion...
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a...
View ArticleZX Spectrum ‘Espectro’ magazine issue #4 and the retro gaming ‘Jogos80’ issue...
Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the...
View Article‘Rite of Druid’– A new text adventure game for the ZX Spectrum Next is...
While writing my previous post about the ZX Spectrum Next, I learned that one of the games I mentioned in the article had been released only four hours ago! Rite of the Druid is a text adventure game...
View Article‘Poke for ZX’– An experimental game that let you taste a Pokemon game on a ZX...
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous...
View ArticleZEsarUX 9.0 – ZX Spectrum emulator gets major update, including MSX,...
The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo,...
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