Category: ZX Spectrum
[youtube -RgjyezdsqU nolink] On this video, Carl Attrill teaches how to make ZX Spectrum graphics on a PC, displayed/animated on his ZX Spectrum emulator. The 10-minute long video shows where to get and how to use all necessary tools. The results are quite impressive! If you happen to try it yourself, don’t forget to show us the results on Twitter!…
CCH curator, Jason Fitzpatrick, had the opportunity of spending the afternoon of 19 February with Rick Dickinson, industrial designer of the original ZX Spectrum, and Steve Wilcox, director of Elite Systems and the man behind the Spectrum BT keyboard. Based on the post linked below, he was very pleased with what he saw: “It’s a really nice and generally faithful…
The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 – CSSCGC for short (!?!) is now on. If you want to participate, the entries can be submitted until the last minute of the last day of this year – Thursday 31st December 2015, at 23:59:59. According to the organizer’s website, the CSSCGC is an annual competition designed to showcase two things – the…
I’ve downloaded the free ebook ‘It’s behind you – The making of a computer game’ by Bob Pape a while ago, but I never got around to actually read it. If you haven’t heard of it, the book was released in 2013 and it tells the story of the making of the ZX Spectrum port of R-Type. This weekend I…
[youtube V6-_48Aqso0 nolink] This amazing demo was created for the ZX81 by ex-Ocean Software coder Jim Bagley (Cabal, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk) and shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum Valentine’s Event 2015 at Snibston Discovery Centre in Leicester. It is just streaming video from CF card using the ZXpand on a ZX81, but he is aiming to make it…
[youtube 5zVYfisnDys nolink] As we reported few hours ago, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude was finally released on this “cursed” Friday 13th, including its own website! As described on the game website “Castlevania: Spectral Interlude is an action-adventure platform game with elements of RPG. It merges well known elements of classic games with some new ideas. It tells a new story…
Castlevania and Friday 13th!?!?!? Just be careful to not cross path with a black cat, or you are doomed! SanNchez, who’s behind the development, announced last Friday via World of Spectrum forum that the final version of the Castlevania port is going to be released today. If you want to join the army of people breaking their F5 key, follow…
A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. SpecBAS is am open-source remake of Sinclair BASIC, but it’s faster, far more powerful and more colourful than Sinclair BASIC has ever been! SpecBAS incorporates all the features of Sinclair BASIC, but with modern additions, like procedures, associative arrays, etc. It is currently available for Windows, Linux, Pandora and Raspberry PI….
ZEsarUX is a Sinclair ZX Machines Emulator for Unix, supporting ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Z88. It run on all *nix flavours (tested on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Linux Raspbian, Mac OS X). The new version 2.0 includes several new features and bug fixes, including: Added Cambridge Z88 emulation Added Real audio tape loading on ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81 (.rwa,…
Kelticweb Gary has published is The Story of the ZX Spectrum Facebook group a type-in Flappy Bird for the ZX Spectrum. If you are brave enough to revive the rough time of the type-in programs from magazines, here is the listing reproduced here: My Flappybird version for ZX Basic – Enjoy * Anyone hardcore enough to type-in – R-e-s-p-e-c-t! \a…
