Category: ZX Spectrum
Antstream is the world’s first retro game streaming subscription service (think Netflix, but for retro games!). AJ, Martin, and Joerg talk to Antstream’s Brandon Keenan and Jo Clifford about how this all came together, and how they’re paving the way for the future of retro gaming. https://scene.world/antstream
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 don’t remember, we have even written a comprehensive review of the game. Another fun fact (for us!) is that Andy didn’t have access to the original source code,…
All the NEXT backers have received today an email full of good news. The new keyboard was already tested and approved by the manufacturer and is on its way to UK for the stamp of approval by the team. The new keyboard, based on an extended matrix as explained in the previous update, already proved a 100% accurate on the composite…
Way back in February 2018, we announced some interesting News about an upcoming Arcade remake of Mr.Do! for the ZX Spectrum which you can read about here. Mr.Do! is an Arcade game created by Universal in 1982, similar to Namco’s Dig Dug. Mr. Do! was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple…
Hewson Consultants! Who doesn’t know them! (Later renamed to #21stCenturyEntertainment), we talk to Andrew Hewson who started all this and talk about the good old times, as well, as talking about what Rob Hewson does nowadays as an Indie videogame developer and publisher with Huey Games, releasing #HyperSentinel on the Switch before and currently working on Kickstarting their new game…
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 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On! This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of…
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
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 is probably the smallest chess program ever made, with only 377 bytes! For you to have an idea what that means, this first paragraph alone contains 389 characters! Alex…
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 of Nine Tiles Inc. The company was responsible for writing the Sinclair BASIC for the ZX-80, ZX-81 and the Spectrum and kept this prototype all these…
A few weeks ago the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k was on sale on Amazon Canada and I decided to get one, although I already had many other ways to stream Netflix and other streaming services (fact that my sons keep reminding (mocking!) me every time I use the new device). The price was good and I was curious to…
