Category: Sinclair News
RetroShop from Portugal has announced that next week will start taking pre-orders for their new ZX Spectrum Next clone boards. If you have missed the two Kickstarted for the complete ZX Spectrum Next or for some reason you are looking for another bare board, that is your chance! The new board contains the fix to the known HDMI problem that…
Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on GitLab which means you can download these games for free. Strand Games website explains…
The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo, and SEGA SG-1000. ZEsarUX is open-source and multiplatform, having off-the-shelf installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, and many others. Initially created to be a ZX Spectrum emulator, Cesar Hernandez’s program quickly extended its…
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…
While writing my previous post about the ZX Spectrum Next, I learned that one of the games I mentioned in the article had been released only four hours ago! Rite of the Druid is a text adventure game or using a more modern term, an interactive fiction where you are part of a small tribe, preparing to take part in…
Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the same place Clube MSX is available (including for international customers). Jogos80 #23 is a retro gaming magazine created by Marcus Garrett and Eduardo Luccas published twice a year….
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,…
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,…
Puddle Soft is pleased to announce that their graphic horror adventure game, The Curse of Rabenstein is now open for pre-order from Poly.Play. The Curse of Rabenstein is a new story by award-winning adventure author Stefan Vogt. Heavily inspired by the masterpieces from Level 9 and enhanced with stunning pixel graphics, this interactive horror will give you the shivers. Expected to ship in mid March…
