Category: ZX Spectrum Next
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…
Yesterday, Andy Johns (BubbleSoft Games) announced the release of his new game Nixy and the Seeds of Doom, the second game in the Nixy series, and a direct sequel to Nixy The Glade Sprite, as we reported last year. Following the previous game of the series, the game is an arcade-platform action where you will explore mysterious caverns and crumbling castle ruins…
The ZX Spectrum Kickstarter has been a thrilling soap opera we all have been following for the past two and a half years, almost as long as Days of our Lives. The journey is not short of soap-opera-like surprises, bad news and even cliff hangers. While the end date is still to be defined, the newest update 51 brings more…
All the NEXT backers have received today an email full of good news. The new keyboard was already tested and approved by the manufacturer and is on its way to UK for the stamp of approval by the team. The new keyboard, based on an extended matrix as explained in the previous update, already proved a 100% accurate on the composite…
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
This is a quickie! Last Friday, Henrique Olifiers posted a quick update in the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing us a glorious picture of the ZX Spectrum Next keyboard! We’re now waiting for it to arrive so we can proceed testing the fit with the case and move ahead towards full production and shipping! Today, we saw another message…
