Category: ZX Spectrum

SUC-Session Scene Magazine Issue 74 Available Soon!

SUC-Session is a complete paper magazine for Spectrum News and articles, selectively as pdf or professionally printed. The SCENE+ disk mag contains a plenty of selected programs from all over the world, which are converted for different disk systems. The latest issue is 74 and will be available to purchase very soon. The magazine is published in the following formats;…

Ever wanted to see a ZX Spectrum Next Laptop? Well Now One Exists Thanks to Dan Birch!

Hopefully you should all be aware of the ZX Spectrum Next by now. The Next is an expanded and updated version of the ZX Spectrum, fully compatible (software and hardware) with the original. You can play any games, demos, use original hardware, you name it. And it also runs new software created more recently to make use of expanded hardware,…

Dave Clarke’s Impossabubble, Digital Download Now Available!

Just a quick post to let you know, Dave Clarkes new Speccy game is now available as a digital download! You can purchase Impossabubble right now for the pocket money price of only $1.49! I paid more than that for a Vanilla Latte today! Head over to retrobeachman.itch.io and grab your copy now! [vsw id=”hJMugcHBVeQ” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]There have…

New Speccy Game in Development, Rubicon by John Blythe

John Blythe has teased a new work in progress AGD game for.. yes.. you guessed it.. ZX Spectrum! I think we are going to have to change our website name to “Speccy is the New Old” soon! The game is called Rubicon (like the drink) and is looking very colourful and cute, but don’t be fooled, not everything cute is…

Impossabubble Announced! A New ZX Spectrum 48K/128K Tape Game (With Music by David Saphier!)

Dave Clarke has just announced on Facebook that his new game “Impossabubble” will be released on tape for the ZX Spectrum under Monument Microgames. In the game you play as a bubble and you have to rescue your friends who have been trapped and turned into a bubble mix. The aim of the game is to find them all.. if…

ZX-Dev Game Conversions Comp, Time for the people to vote for the Best Game!

A few days ago we posted the complete list of the ZX-Dev Conversions games and we hope you have tried at least some of them. Although the best games will be chosen by an official panel, the Planeta Sinclair website has the post a widget (on the top right side of the site) allowing you to pick one and vote. It…

Apulija-13, 2013 Survival Horror Game for the ZX Spectrum Gets A Massive Update!

Apulija-13 is a survival horror for the ZX Spectrum by Alessandro Grussu. The game was created using  Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer and was originally released in 2013 for Apulia Retrocomputing. Today at Vintage is the New Old, we are please to announce that Version 2.0 has been released! Check out the BIG list of changes below. – This version…

Aleisha Cuff Releases AstrosmashZX for the ZX Spectrum!

“Spin, Blast, And drop into hyperspace to avoid a killer asteroid shower! Aleisha Cuff (AMCgames) has released a new AGD game for the ZX Spectrum called “AstrosmashZX” which is a port of Astrosmash, which was originally released in 1981 on the Intellivision games console. Astrosmash was a very popular game back in the day, more than one million copies were sold…

Complete List (With Downloads) of All Game Entries for the ZX’Dev Conversions 2017!

Here is the Complete List of all the games entered into the ZX’Dev Conversions 2017. Click each one to download the game. (DK3 and Quack Hunt are currently unfinished) – Baby Monkey Alba, Javier Quero – Bobby Carrot, Couvej – DK3, Highrise – Dr. Who – Surrender Time, Igor Errazking – Extruder, Rui Martins – Gandalf, Cristian Gonzalez, Alvin Albrecht, Hikaru…

Sunday’s Sizzling Speccy Homebrew Releases!

I thought I may as well post some more ZX Spectrum releases, we’ve had some fantastic games flooding in this past week, Dr Who Surrender Time, Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey, Jane Jelly The Egg Diamond, Mike the Guitar and Mighty Final Fight to name a few. I have compiled a small list of new homebrew games for your download pleasure. Not going…