Category: ZX Spectrum
As you may have noticed on the World of Spectrum website, the forums have been unavailable for some time now, but fear not as there is a temporary forum available and is already pretty active considering it hasn’t been up for very long. I stumbled upon a couple of speccy games there which are defintly worth a play. First up…
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
[youtube uEZWAcr39lg nolink] Article written by Martin Maly, and published at www.uelectronics.info Everyone who had once owned a ZX Spectrum, surely had at least once seen an amazing loading effect and wondered: How are they doing this? So, come and have a read… It will be a long story and perhaps you might even learn something. Because ZX Spectrum didn’t…
New versions of Spectaculator are now available on Google Play (v2.1) and the App Store (v6.1). The Android version has been updated to the same set officially licensed ZX Spectrum games as the iOS version. New games added Finders Keepers Spellbound Knight Tyme Stormbringer Android: Google Play (v2.1) iOS: App Store (v6.1)Windows: spectaculator80.msi Website: http://www.spectaculator.com
Retro Programming website announced today the 4th challenge about Z80 programming the ZX Spectrum. The challenge consists in creating a program up to 50 bytes that will perform a fade-to-white CLS command. As shown by the animation above, the program will scan the monitor following a diagonal line, and changing the colours of the lines until it gets white. The…
Yars’ Revenge was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and first released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. Now, the ZX Spectrum owners can also can enjoy it (It is never too late!). Created by Luca Bordoni, the ZX Spectrum version is very well done, with nice graphics and very fast paced gameplay. I found a few problems with collision detection,…
Recently released, comes Pentacorn Quest, an Adventure/Platformer for the ZX Spectrum created using the popular La Churrera (The Mojon Twins) In the game, you need to collect five golden acorns distributed by the large mapping and deliver to the magical sanctuary, so you can cross an ancient door that will lead to … well, creators would prefer us not to…
Using the author’s own description, “Pets vs Aliens is a rather experimental story-driven “lullaby” board game for the ZX Spectrum that was recently released on World of Spectrum forum. The storyline is narrated in rhymes following the style of a classic children’s book although combined with a more exciting sci-fi theme. That’s a somewhat weird combination for a computer game,…
[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…
