Category: Sinclair News

Monty’s Honey Run, A New Monty Game by Andy Johns for the ZX Spectrum

Monty Mole is the title character from the series of video games from Gremlin Graphics. He was created by Peter Harrap. Monty is a miner by trade and sports a monocle throughout the series, up until Impossamole, which features a completely different rendition of the character. There are six games in the original Monty series. Wanted: Monty Mole (1984) Monty is Innocent (1985)…

Z88DK – Development kit for Z80 gets new version

Z88DK is a C cross compiler package that targets the z80 and consists of a C compiler, an extensive set of assembly language libraries, an assembler / linker, and a tool for generating executables in a number of formats. Development in C, assembly language or a mixture of the two is directly supported. After one year since the last release, it…

Mazeract, Adventures in Other Dimension, New Puzzle Game for the ZX Spectrum

A new Puzzle game called Mazeract has appeared on the World of Spectrum forums. The idea of the game is to find your way to the exit of each level. All sounds pretty simple and the first few levels are, but as you progress, things get a bit more complicated and you have to find keys to open doors. Sometimes the key and…

Pietro Bros! Mario Bros NES Clone Lands on the ZX Spectrum

Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from this hell… Pietro Bros by Cristian M. Gonzalez, as you can guess is really Mario Bros renamed for obvious copyright infringements. In the game you play Pietro and Luizo aka Mario and Luigi. This version is based on the 1983 NES release….

Heroes Rescue, Amstrad Homebrew Game Now Available For ZX Spectrum!

Defecto Digital have released a new ZX Spectrum port of their Amstrad game “Heroes Rescue”. In the game you play Fry from Futurama, who has to rescue other cartoon heroes from The Simpsons, T.M.N.T and Marvel. Things aren’t that simple though, many enemies from the same cartoon series will try to prevent your way to the top of the level. On your way to rescue the…

Type in! Vintage Computer Club 8-Bit Listing Competition

Did you miss the magazine’s type-in era? Very few would actually miss it, but it brings good feelings remembering the days and nights typing programs from magazine’s listings, mainly when the program didn’t work, or a power outage would end it for you! Well, now is time to get revenge – people will type in your program and you might get prizes for…

In the Walls of Eryx, New Speccy Action/Puzzle Game by Kevin McGrorty

“In the Walls of Eryx” is a brand new game for the 128k ZX-Spectrum by Monster’s Legs Productions, using Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J Sterling’s short story (with the kind permission of Arkham House), the game follows the adventures of Private Stansfield after he crash-lands in the Erycinian Highlands of Venus and combs…

Crappy Crates, New Spectrum Puzzle Game by The Death Squad

Crappy Crates is a new Christmas game by Death Squad for the ZX Spectrum 48/128/Vega/Next. You have been placed on another MWA. This time you have to stack crates laden with Christmas crap into the designated pick up areas. Various creatures are out to make your life a misery, and a filthy old pervert dressed as Father Christmas has took…

Cybermania, A New Maze Action Game by Payndz for the ZX Spectrum

Seems we are overrun with new ZX Spectrum releases this week, we have yet another new game, this time from Payndz over at World of Spectrum Forums. Payndz is new to creating games on the Spectrum and Cybermania is his first attempt at writing a game in AGD. From the thread on WoS, Payndz mentions that the game is a…

Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario, New ZX Spectrum Game from Steve Trower

Steve Trower has released a new maze/puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum titled “Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario”. Testing his new machine, “Stela”, the Doctor Malfario, in a strange time travel has been lost in parallel worlds. Your mission is to guide Doctor Malfario in his small spacecraft “Stela” back to his mansion through 5 different worlds,…