Category: ZX Spectrum

Monaco ’79 -Commodore Amiga-

 by Nonsense Games It’s like ‘Monaco GP’ – before it got so ‘Super‘! A 2D, top-down, fast-paced, vertically scrolling racer for the Commodore Amiga (OCS/ECS) inspired by Sega’s classic 1979 arcade game ‘Monaco GP‘ AmiGameJam 2024 – ‘The Sequel That Never Was’ For AmiGameJam 2024, this game can be considered a sequel to ‘Monaco‘ – the PD game released by ‘Boys in Beige’ in 1993….

350p Adventure, for YOUR retro computer!

Adventure, 350 point version, by Will Crowther and Don Woods, for dozens of platforms, including 8-bit and 16-bit computers of the 80s and 90s.The game is sometimes called Advent, because the system it was created on in the 70s would not allow filenames to be more than six characters long. This game is sometimes considered as the very first text…

TEASERS: SOVIET BORGS

The Soviet Borgs are here to free you from your freedom! Along the way, they’ll shoot just about everything they see. Xenocider developer Retro Samus is back with a new Genesis title, and we got to try out an early version. The game looks promising so far, and it looks like a lot of exploration and shooting action for 16-bit…

350p Adventure – a new port of an old game

Screenshot of Adventure on C64

Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called…

Fallout C64 2025 Calendar

 by back2the8bit Playing games like Fallout in these times of war is something like to train yourself in order to survive in a post-nuke era.  Back2the8bit: “Let’s hope not, and let’s hope that we can just enjoy the games and this nuka-wow calendar I have made for you“ Every month of the 2025 will be under some picture taken from…

JOHNNY DANGER Y EL TALISMÁN DE FUEGO -ZX Spectrum-

 by TXARLY BOY GAMES Jonny Danger y El Talismán de Fuego is the first video game from the Txarly Boy Games factory, for the ZX Spectrum For this purpose they have used the classic and consolidated MK1 of the Mojón Twins, thus achieving a title of platforms, jumps and collecting objects, with everything very carefully and worked. The protagonist must…

Rumba -ZX Spectrum-

 Clean your room in the factory-stipulated time by Mojon Twins Powered by MK1 by the Mojon Twins, splib2 by Alvin Albrecht, Phaser Engine by Shiru and Arkos by Targham You just purchased a brand new Dora the Vacuum Cleaner modelRumba, the latest in its class, with two cleaning modes, vacuuming and mopping. In the store they assured you that it…

New versions of “Mickey” and “Cyborg Warriors” available for Atari 8-bit

Krzysztof “Vega” Góra (Poland) continues to surprise the Atari 8-bit community with the release of optimized versions of “Mikie” and “Cyborg Warriors”, now available in cartridge format and compatible with standard 64Kb computers. Download, here Source:https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/11/new-versions-of-mikie-and-cyborg.html

THE MICRODRIVE – LIMITED EDITION USB DRIVE STICK – FOR USE WITH THE SPECTRUM AND ALL OF RGLS RECREATED COMPUTERS!

  FOR USE WITH THE SPECTRUM AND ALL OF RGLS RECREATED COMPUTERS! AUK DIRECT: “We have a limited volume of these USB sticks/drives! Once they are gone they are gone, we will endeavour to get these out to people ASAP we can over the next week or so!”. Spec – 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive.  Formatted to Fat32 for use…

Tutorial on how to load Spectrum games

Emulators. If you are looking for a Spectrum emulator for Windows, these are some of the best: 1) Spectaculator. Paid, but surely the most complete emulator for this system. Emulates Sinclair/Amstrad models and Soviet clones Pentagon 128 and Scorpion ZX 256. 2) Klive. By Steve Snake. Excellent emulation with a very simple interface. Only emulates Sinclair/Amstrad models. 3) Speccy. By Marat Fayzullin, the creator of fMSX…