Category: Sinclair News
[youtube V6-_48Aqso0 nolink] This amazing demo was created for the ZX81 by ex-Ocean Software coder Jim Bagley (Cabal, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk) and shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum Valentine’s Event 2015 at Snibston Discovery Centre in Leicester. It is just streaming video from CF card using the ZXpand on a ZX81, but he is aiming to make it…
[youtube 5zVYfisnDys nolink] As we reported few hours ago, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude was finally released on this “cursed” Friday 13th, including its own website! As described on the game website “Castlevania: Spectral Interlude is an action-adventure platform game with elements of RPG. It merges well known elements of classic games with some new ideas. It tells a new story…
Castlevania and Friday 13th!?!?!? Just be careful to not cross path with a black cat, or you are doomed! SanNchez, who’s behind the development, announced last Friday via World of Spectrum forum that the final version of the Castlevania port is going to be released today. If you want to join the army of people breaking their F5 key, follow…
A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. SpecBAS is am open-source remake of Sinclair BASIC, but it’s faster, far more powerful and more colourful than Sinclair BASIC has ever been! SpecBAS incorporates all the features of Sinclair BASIC, but with modern additions, like procedures, associative arrays, etc. It is currently available for Windows, Linux, Pandora and Raspberry PI….
“Zombi Terror” is an adventure game, divided in two parts, where you can move through the different locations and make special actions by the options displayed on screen, and with a “battle system” based on “dice rolling”, just like some rpg-board games. In addition to the amount of graphics, Kabuto Factory have composed an audio soundtrack to ambient the game…
ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak and it was recently updated to version 1.3.3. The new version brings an updated list of downloadable files and bugfixes. You can install it on any modded DS. It accurately emulates Spectrum 48k, 128k, +2/+2A/+3, and Pentagon, and supports SNA/Z80/SZX snapshots, TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL/DSK…
ZEsarUX is a Sinclair ZX Machines Emulator for Unix, supporting ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Z88. It run on all *nix flavours (tested on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Linux Raspbian, Mac OS X). The new version 2.0 includes several new features and bug fixes, including: Added Cambridge Z88 emulation Added Real audio tape loading on ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81 (.rwa,…
For 32 years, the smallest implementation of a chess game would run on a ZX-81. Back in 1983, the Your Computer Magazine had the 672-bytes program listed in its February issue, and the same program held the world record for 32 years. Geek.com has published yesterday an article showing that the world record was broken by a chess game called…
BBC News reports today that the ZX Spectrum Vega will start to be manufactured in Nottinghamshire firm SMS Electronics. The machine, which has been developed by Luton-based Retro Computers, is due to go on sale in April. The ZX Spectrum Vega features an SD card slot and joypad controls, but lacks of full keyboard (it has a virtual one), which…
Zero is a spectrum emulator written entirely on the .NET platform, using C#, and requires .NET framework 2.0, and now its author, Arjun Nair, has made the source code public and post it on Github. The philosophy behind Zero is to provide a highly accurate emulation of the various Spectrum models while also providing a nice, user friendly experience. Arjun…
