Category: ZX Spectrum
Eurogamer website has published an extensive article showing how a Kickstarter campaign can go wrong, telling the story of the Recreated ZX Spectrum, which is (was?) a ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard that could be connected to a companion app on mobile devices as well as on PCs, bringing the full Spectrum experience when using emulators on those devices. The campaign was…
The Den of Geek website has published one of those (in)famous lists that you see all over the internet. This one talks about the 15 greatest games even made for the ZX Spectrum. The site is not oriented directly to retro gamers so maybe you won’t agree with every choice, but with Elita, Manic Miner and R-Type, the author was…
Subreddit RetroBattlestations is promoting another BASIC Month. This time around, the idea is to run the BASIC program Terraspin, a Turtle graphics type program created for the contest. The contestants will have to type in the program on any retro computer that runs BASIC and post take a picture of it running. The rules state very clearly that screen only or emulators are…
Fuse, a free and open source Speccy emulator for Windows, Linux and OSX, just got updated to version 1.2. Here is the announcement: “After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/…
The Spectrum Next is, in my opinion, causing more buzz around the retro-computing community than the VEGA and as consequence, people want to know more details about the project. The website Flickering Myth has published an interview with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next to us. Probably the most interesting piece of information the…
Times are magnificent for retro computing nostalgia! After the ZX Spectrum VEGA, VEGA+ and THE64, now we were presented with the ‘Spectrum Next’. Spectrum Next was unveiled last Saturday at the Play Expo Blackpool in UK with a huge reception. The gorgeous new machine is still being presented as a rendered 3D model for now, and it is preparing to debut a crowdfunding…
The 2016 BASIC 10-liners contest is a staggering success with 89 games in 4 categories. The number of entries and the quality of the programs shows that BASIC is still a viable language for many usages, and fun to program. Your very own Vintage is The New Old had an entry called “Typing Hero” for the MSX, and it did…
Deep Core Raider is a new game developed by Paul Jenkinson, created using the AGD game engine. The game premise let you control your pod and navigate deeper into the planets to collect any minerals you can find while avoiding the corporate defence cannons. There is also the fuel that you have to keep under control. The game works very like…
John Kavanagh has announced to his Kickstarter campaign backers that the issue 1 of the Eight-bit Magazine is in full production and on contrary to what he has published, it won’t have 48 pages, but 60! John also tells that the issue 2 work has started, and he is looking for authors to help make the magazine relevant. I am particularly…
CinnyVision episode 115 has brought a fascinating featured article telling the story about how Amstrad bought Sinclair back in 1986. The report claims to dig deep into the facts, which are not always accurate throughout the Internet with articles based on magazine reports from that time when not all facts have been fully understood, or even publicized. The video also…
