Category: Sinclair News
Inspired by Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws”, indie developer Matt Round created an awesome browser game in HTML5, intended to imitate the style of a classic ZX-Spectrum text adventure in Sinclair BASIC. As a “homage” to his original work, Einar Saukas decided to port it for real to the ZX-Spectrum, using only Sinclair BASIC statements to ensure a 100% authentic feeling….
Oceano is an Amstrad deep sea submarine maze game made in AGD by EgoTrip and he has also ported it over to the Spectrum too. Amy decided to explore the seas in search of 20 fabled power crystals that have long been lost in the ocean. However there are robotic fish guarding them, and acidic bubbles that can damage her…
We reported back in February about the demo version (shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum event 2015) of Dragons Lair for the humble ZX81 computer. We found some more information over at sellmyretro.com about the final release which is the full game and fully playable!, and they said it wasn’t possible! The game is available for just £10 and…
The guys over at C64.com have added an interview with Mevlüt Dinç / MD Software, Vivid Image. Mevlüt started dabbling with the Spectrum computer purely for fun. Learning to program, he created a few basic demos from just books and magazines. Within two years he had learnt how to program in machine code. In time he moved onto programming games…
[youtube Q2sd2FNPTBs nolink] We have already reported Stormfinch for the ZX Spectrum here. If you didn’t have the chance to play it, and you are curious to see how it plays, you can check the video review released on the YouTube channel “It’s a Pixel Thing”. Stormfinch is special, for it uses the Nirvana Engine that can produce an amazing…
Originally a Speccy title, Duck Out! is 2D side-scrolling beat’em up. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with a girl. Along the way, this crazy duck ends up fighting numerous enemies such as scary middle aged men, cats, dogs and lizards! The…
andrewvanbeck from World of Spectrum forums has blessed us with a new game to kick off the weekend! Super 48k Box is a demake of Super Crate Box by Vlambeer. Andrew mentions that this is not affiliated with them in any way, just a fan game made for good old speccy. Key controls are shown on the title screen, supports…
Kayamon from the World Of Spectrum forums has released a long awaited game for the ZX Spectrum 128. The Hobbit 128K edition! Featuring: Mick Farrow’s fabulous new loading screen. The slow old vector-based artwork has been replaced by 55 new bitmap screens, ported from the C64, BBC, and DOS disk versions. Many thanks to the efforts of the numerous WoS…
Dead Flesh Boy is made with the awesome Arcade Game Designer by Jonathan Cauldwell. The game has a total of 15 levels, some of them are quite tricky but lots of fun. This game is not approved or connected with Team Meat in any way, it’s a fan made demake designed to capture the fluid controls and precise gameplay. Note…
Flype is an Arcade Puzzle game created mainly with AGD and is inspired by the awesome ‘Cool Croc Twins’, which was a big hit on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Flype comprises of 20 levels of increasing difficulty. Flype will also be available on iOS devices via emulation and is due to be released on the app store May 2015….
