Category: ZX Spectrum Next
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
It is always great to see when an article about retro gaming hits a major outlet. Yesterday, I found an article about game development for the ZX Spectrum on Gamasutra, the most prestigious game development website out there. Pedro Guida, an indie game developer that started to get interested in game development while playing and programming in his own Speccy,…
Laserbirds, the new fast-paced shoot’em up for the ZX Spectrum by Bitnamic Software is now available for purchase as a digital download. Last month we talked about Laserbirds where we mention that the physical tape would be available sometime in the first half of 2020 but due to the current state of affairs the world is facing, Bitnamic has decided…
Back in 2017, I was pretty excited about the ZX Spectrum Next crowdfunding campaign and the whole idea of the modern retro computer. However, I remember to tell people that the “Next” part of the project wasn’t that interesting to me. As a “purist” retro collector, I didn’t care too much about a modern computer with modern capabilities but with…
Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a powerful enemy that has excellent earing and memory as well as great hierarchical organization capability. The enemy’s AI is a strong selling point of the game. The waves of Laserbirds,…
As the first users start to receive their ZX Spectrum Next, they have already available an update for the Next Core, NextZXOS and support programs. The update brings all enhancements made after the Next got into production. In a recent Facebook post, Phoebus Dokos lists the changes: includes Lords of Midnight by Matt Davies (aka WAHH Industries™) AND Night-Knight by Mr. David Saphier…
If you hang out on the ZX Next Facebook group, it is relatively common to see people asking how to buy it if you are not a backer of the first campaign, which points to an increasing interest in the machine we learn to love to wait (!) It looks like there is still hope for those that missed the…
In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign was funded in 1987, or it was 2017? I can’t remember anymore ;), it is possible that many of…
The Yandex Museum, located in Moscow Russia, launched a retro games contest in July, seeking new game submission for the ZX Spectrum by 5 December 2019. The contest has proven to be quite popular with 19 games submitted and now you have until 11 December to try out all the entries and submit your vote. Browsing through the submissions there…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
