Category: ZX Spectrum
By now, everybody knows that the Arcade Game Designer (AGD) has been helping many developers to bring new games for the ZX Spectrum (and also Amstrad CPC, Coco/Dragon) in an incredible rate and excellent quality. Yesterday, another game showed up in the AGDx Facebook Group and caught my attention by its simplicity and the arcady feeling that it brings: Ninja…
As you might know, Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) is a game engine tool that makes easier to develop games for the ZX Spectrum. Although AGD is one of the best game engines around for retro computers, it runs on a ZX Spectrum hence it is constrained by the machine’s limitations. This week, Tony Thompson has announced on the…
It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
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 to arrive so we can proceed testing the fit with the case and move ahead towards full production and shipping! Today, we saw another message…
We give our verdict on Uprising Games’ homage to Kung-Fu Master for the ZX Spectrum!
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 to decide how the movie will proceed and ends. In a nutshell (no spoilers) the main character is a young game programmer and the…
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 recreated from the original screen art from 1988. The second update is the availability of the game in TAP format, for those who prefer this…
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 Quadron from the invaders. The Origins Andy “Cosmium” Beale had started developer Quadron in 1986-87 and after two years he completed it and was about to publish it…
Allan Turvey has announced on the AGDx Facebook Group the Christmas Code Jam 2018, where a Christmas-theme game will be created using as many hands as possible. AGDx group is a spin-off from the official Arcade Game Design group with the objective to discuss technical challenges, modding, patches and the current progress with AGDX Studio, which by itself is an expanded…
