Category: ZX Spectrum
Bomber Bot is a new game by the great Gabriele Amore, a man well known for his fantastic ZX Spectrum Homebrew games, and Bomber Bot does not disappoint. Bomber Bot is a bit like Bomberman, you have bombs and enemies, you lay your bomb down and run to safety, and hopefully over time, you have managed to kill everyone, the…
Fast food deliveries drop in from the top of the screen and move around the platforms. Arrows on the platforms direct the food in particular directions and these can be changed by pressing fire in combination with one of the 4 directions, thus re-directing food elsewhere. Customer orders are shown as icons above each of the 3 windows and it…
Virgil’s Purgatory ZX is a metroidvania exploration action platformer. The game is available for ZX Spectrum or MSX, .tap and .rom formats. You can run these files on any good emulator or better still, real hardware. Virgíl’s Purgatory has been updated to version 2.0 on the ZX Spectrum. Lot’s of new changes in place, much more than just bug fixes,…
The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…
RetroRGB is THE portal to learn all about how to get the picture the best way out of such retro consoles to your modern TVs! Robert Neal is the master behind behind this portal which is the go-to address for console info of all kind as well, thanks to its extensive Wiki which is a whole database, YouTube videos, podcast…
After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important: GOTY. To elect the nominees, first, the judges had to go through a list of 130 names and vote for five favourites (10 for GOTY). The result of this list is what…
Lost Games is a compilation of 4 games, resurrected from tape, that Andy “Cosmium” Beale wrote in 1983. You might remember Cosmium when he released the excellent Quadron a few years ago. Although they didn’t make the cut with the publishers at the time, Cosmium thinks these compiled BASIC 16K games were quite fun for the era, and he decided to…
The summer releases from Teknamic Software have arrived, the Portuguese publisher dedicated to supporting the publication of new games for old platforms, and to reissuing classics as a tribute to their creators and pioneers. With these three new releases, Teknamic has stepped up a notch in terms of the cassette presentation. Instead of the usual paper insert for the cassette…
To celebrate ZX Spectrum’s 40th birthday, Quantum Sheep reached out to some awesome Spectrum game developers who have very generously agreed to participate in the Game Bundle with all proceeds destined for charity. The bundle is hosted on itch.io using the “pay what you want” price (above $10.00) and gives you access to 30+ games for the ZX Spectrum. The…
The Planeta Sinclair blog and the Arca Lusitana archive present: 2022 Pascalated BASIC Contest! This contest invites any interested to write a program in ZX Spectrum BASIC using a more structured approach than the usual BASIC from the 80s offered at the time. In a nutshell, no GOTOs are allowed! The idea came from the fact that when the ZX Spectrum Next was launched, it…
