Category: ZX Spectrum
As I am writing this post, the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is entering its last week and is £991 short to reach the astonishing mark of half million pounds! Henrique and team had created a new stretch goal to be unlocked after the £500,000 mark that will make all backers very happy: a new Dizzy game made exclusively for the ZX Spectrum…
If you are into BASIC programming and the ZX Spectrum, here is a great opportunity to make something fun with your little machine! It was announced a game jam exclusively for ZX Spectrum games written in BASIC. The general jam rules allow you to create a game in one of the following categories: Arcade / Platformer Adventure (Text or Graphical)…
Designed with the Vega+ and Vega in mind, this is another “trademark” game design oddity. Give it a play and see what you think. If you liked Coracle, Albatrossity and Battery is not Precluded, this might be your next favourite game. :) Download: jubbles.zip Source: worldofspectrum.org Website: spanglefish.com/egghead/
Wolfcastle McBain is a new ZX Spectrum homebrew game inspired by The Simpsons character Rainier Luftwaffe Wolfcastle, an Austrian, musclebound action movie star and a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The game is made with the La Churrera Engine (Mojon Twins), and puts you in control of McBain, blasting away enemies in a top down view, similar to Into the Eagles…
I thought I would create a quick video on how to generate TAP files from AGD as a few people have asked. Play at full screen so you can see the subtitles.
The 2017 10Liners contest is over. With 64 entries, this year contest is a staggering success. There are games for Atari, Commodore, MSX, Apple II and Amstrad and the quality of them is really impressive, considering how restrictive is a BASIC program in only 10 lines! But creativity wins! Here is the first 3 on each category: PUR-80 – Maximum of…
As the Kickstarter campaign goes, some backers and potential ones have raised a few technical questions about the ZX Spectrum Next, mostly related to the Wi-Fi, Realtime clock, and the Raspberry PI Zero. To avoid misunderstandings and help people deciding what model to get, Victor Trucco came out on Facebook to answer the most pressing questions. Will old software work…
It is typical for any Kickstarter project the existence of stretch goals. The idea is to either improve the product or give extra perks if the funding money passes the target goal for a good margin and reaches other targets values. When launched, we noticed that the ZX Spectrum Next didn’t have any stretch goal defined, which is not really uncommon,…
I was expecting that the Next would be a hot topic over Kickstarter and it would be funded, but I didn’t expect that to happen so quick. The project is fully funded already, which means they will get the money from all backers via Kickstarter. Since there are still 28 days to go, there are plenty of time to go way…
We were all counting the days when we could pledge for the ZX Spectrum Next project, and now that day has come! The Next campaign is live and after a couple hours, it already reached almost £50,000. We are happy to be the first retro computing/gaming website to bring such good news! The Spectrum Next is an expanded and updated…
