Category: ZX Spectrum
Blerk over at World of Spectrum forums has recently posted about a new turn-based space strategy game called Break/Space. The game was originally created for the ZX BASIC Game Jam and received good feedback albeit running a little on the slow side. Blerk has spent the last few weeks converting it to compile under Boriel’s ZX Basic. The end result…
Psytronik Software are known mostly for releasing tape and disks versions of Commodore games, while browsing the website as I do daily, I noticed for the 35th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum they are offering their very first ZX Spectrum tape release! ‘Robot 1 in … THE SHIP OF DOOM’ is now available to order for £6.99 over at Binary…
The Crash Annual 2018 Kickstarter smashed it’s goal target within a day! For those of you that aren’t so Speccy savvy, Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. At time of writing the Kickstarter has reached…
Jim Bagley has just returned from a meeting with Henrique Olifiers and SMS Electronics, which took place in Nottingham. The meeting was to discus the Next test board run which should hopefully be delivered to Henrique by a week on Monday! Once the boards have been thoroughly tested, the go ahead for the board only run will take place and…
After 2 decades W.A.S.P. (We are Spectrum Programmers) are back! If you have never heard of W.A.S.P, they are responsible for a fair few well known games from your childhood, including classics such as “Bubble Dizzy“, “Quick Snax” and “Robin Hood, Legend Quest“. Their first ZX Next game “Dream World Pogie“, has a target release date of January 2018 to…
Those of you who are closely following and maybe even backing the ZX Spectrum Next, may be pleased to know that Victor Trucco recently added a new video on YouTube showing WAV files playing on the Next! I am pretty savvy when it comes to computers and technology but the way this was achieved kinda flew right over my head…
Good Afternoon.. Here is the Bagley News .. Jim Bagley’s New Next game has been updated! The official name for the game has been decided and it will be called “Baggers on Ladders”. To celebrate the new name, Jim has implemented walking up and down ladders! As you can see from the video the game is coming along nicely, Donkey…
Hot off the press! Gabriele Amore (Donkey Kong Jr, Crazy Kong City, Castle Capers) has just given us the heads up about a brand new game which he released today. “MONKEY J: The treasure of the gold temple that was lost in the forest until he (or she?) found it”, (takes a breath, phew!) is a gorgeous new platformer starring…
You may have been wondering where I have been these last few days, well.. as some of you know, July 2nd was my birthday, you may have seen the ZX Spectrum Next cake my boyfriend made me (If not check the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook Group or @CommodoreBlog Twitter). I usually do a day trip to the coast on my…
John Blythe (Foggy’s Quest) has started on a brand new AGD platformer project called ‘Circuitry’. The game is a Manic Miner style single screen platformer, and it is looking gorgeous! Help Nan O’Bot find the fragments of usable code from an infested mainframe. Watch out for corrupted machine code and power surge imps! Ride the I/O Ports through the system…
