Category: ZX Spectrum
Early January I made post (along with some other ZX Spectrum homebrew releases) about Allan Turvey’s ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. “Roust” is Allan’s entry to the ZX-Dev conversions competition and he recently shared a fully playable free demo on the Spectrum for Everyone Facebook group! You can download the demo below, a full version is to…
We, “retro” enthusiasts, know well that time goes too fast and we are all aging at the same speed, but we never can expect when someone in the retro scene passes away. This morning I learned through many UK gaming outlets that Bob Wakelin has passed away. He was mostly known in UK and the rest of Europe where Ocean…
Gabriele Amore has released a new Speccy game called Crazy Kong Episode II, Saving Kong. The game is his entry for the ZX-Dev competition and was created with AGD (Arcade Game Designer). The game instantly reminded me of the 1986 Arcade title Rampage, a classic in it’s own right. However the gameplay is very different to Rampage, where you climbed and…
MojonTwins are well-known for their many great games for the ZX Spectrum and other “retro” platforms. It is excellent news for all homebrew developers out there that they decided to release the source code of their game engine MK2, a framework consisting of a modular engine programmed in C and a set of tools to make games for ZX Spectrum….
Bobby Carrot is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. Couvej over at zx-dev-conversions.proboards.com has released a demake for the ZX Spectrum Dev Compo. Collect all the carrots while avoiding the spike traps, once you have completed this, head for the…
We are only a few days into 2018 and already the Speccy News has started flowing in! Today with have some new ZX Spectrum Homebrew releases to talk about, so without further ado, let’s get on with it! First up we have a new game called ‘Jilly’s Farm Volume 1’ by Bob Smith (Bob’s Stuff), which is an isometric title…
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
Brendan Alford has just released zx-diagnostics v0.36 New features: ROMCheck utility, generates ROM checksums for machines with unknown machines. New ROM sets: Derby 4.02, TK90x/TK95 If ROM is not recognised and the user doesn’t make a machine selection, after 20 seconds the diagnostics assume 48K mode. Beeps to indicate test start are accompanied by cycling through all colours in the…
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
