Category: ZX Spectrum
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 coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
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) factors, the game released has been moved to… NOW! Yes, the future proud ZX Spectrum Next owners are able to order the game now, in digital download…
We first reported on the ZX-Dev-MIA-Remakes competition back at the beginning of June, and things are certain starting to hot up as our friends at Planeta Sinclair have been keeping a watchful eye on the various entries submitted so far. The objective of the competition is for budding coders to remake a classic Spectrum game of their choice that was…
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 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
Clive Townsend will be releasing the third instalment of Saboteur this year. As I am sure you’re aware, Saboteur is an absolute classic etched in our minds from childhood. The game was released on various platforms, but the most loved version was on the ZX Spectrum. For those of you that are somehow not familiar with this game, you take…
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 engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…
Victor Trucco has posted an update on behalf of Henrique and I couldn’t be more excited! They have received the physical samples of the initial plastic injected case which needed some adjustments that were already applied to the moulds. From the pictures, the cases look amazing and exactly like I was hoping they would be. To help us feel the Next…
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 are still in full development. You can use ZEsarUX on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Raspberry PI. ZEsarUX is more than a ZX Spectrum emulator,…
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 idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 with 16 KB of memory expansion. 3D Monster Maze puts the player…
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 awoken! It can mean only one thing. The Dark Forest Lord is preparing to break free from his 1000 years of imprisonment! You must reactivate…
