Category: ZX Spectrum
In the history of all of mankind’s worst conflicts, none was as fiercely fought as the Great Playground Computer War (1982 to 1992, depending on how long you were willing to hold a grudge). On one side, you had the might of Sir Clive’s Sinclair army, brandishing the mighty ZX Spectrum, on the other, the Jack Tramiel’s troops, a bunch…
Mr. Do! is an arcade game created by Universal in 1982. Similar to Namco’s Dig Dug, Mr. Do! was very popular and was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple II. It is the first game in the Mr. Do series, and was released both as a standalone game and also as…
Good News, remember we gave you exclusive heads up on the new Arkanoid clone for the ZX Spectrum Next called Nextoid? Well Lampros Potamianos announced today that the game download will be available very soon! V1.0 of Nextoid! is in the new TBBLUE distribution that will be uploaded soon! Definitely an Arkanoid clone, but I like to see it as…
As a backer of the ZX Spectrum Next board and also the ZX Spectrum Cased version, I was very excited to receive a new backers email in my inbox this morning from the Next team. News about new games, apps, box design, upcoming firmware and more! The Box Mike has been relentlessly pushing the box forward, with the design and…
Planeta Sinclair, a great Portuguese-speaking website about the ZX Spectrum, has just announced the winners of its poll trying to find the best ZX-Dev Conversion. Two highly acclaimed conversions that we have already covered, Mighty Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors have nabbed the first and second place, respectively. There were a total of 173 votes, and Mighty Final Fight took…
A few days ago, John Blythe announced a new AGD game coming to the ZX Spectrum called Rubicon. Over on Sarah’s Speccy Group, John recently shared a wip title screen for the game. We are loving the new graphics John! Stay tuned for more News from Rucksack Games soon. Read more about Rubicon here. Source: John Blythe
Mike Dailly has put together a quick demo for the ZX Spectrum Next, showing what can be achieved using Copper. For those of you that have maybe never heard of ‘Copper’, it’s a display list processor. Most famously known and used on the Commodore Amiga, and uses very little CPU overhead. Below you will see a short video showing a…
Missing in Action game “Astor Roulette” has been recovered by Planeta Sinclair website. João Costa was kind enough to send the tape over and after demagnetizing and cleaning, the game was good enough to salvage. As the name suggests, Astor Roulette is a roulette simulation game and is thought to have been released around 1986. The author has been authenticated as…
Planeta Sinclair recently shared some interesting News about a remake of an old game by Marco Carrasco and Rui Tito. The game is called Aquatic Invaders and was recovered last year by Sinclair Planet. The original BASIC code has been re-written for the compiler Boriel’s ZX Basic, resulting in a much faster game. You can read more information about the…
Alessandro Grussu has recently released a new ZX Spectrum Compilation, which contains his first two games, Lost In My Spectrum and Apulija-13. The compilation is a disk-only release and has been devised for use with ZX Spectrum 48K/128K systems equipped with Beta Disk or similar interfaces, or MGT Plus D, or memory card based interfaces such as the DivIDE or…
