Category: Sinclair News

Spectaculator 6.0 for iOS Released

Spectaculator is a complete ZX Spectrum for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad! Contains Sinclair BASIC and many great games from the 1980s These are the changes for the version 6.0: Refreshed for iOS 7. Added more licensed games: Bear Bovver Doomdark’s Revenge Everyone’s a Wally KWAH! Redhawk Skool Daze Website: Spectaculator Download Link: iTunes

Speccy Jam starts on Aug 29th

Speccy Jam is a regular world wide 1 week game jam, where indie game developers come together to create games with the flavour of the legendary 8-bit personal home computer, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The next edition will run from Aug 29th to Sep 5th, and this year it is bringing a stellar group of ZX Spectrum gamedev veterans which…

Spectrum Today magazine now in English

Spectrum Today is a magazine that covers everything that is happening in the ZX Spectrum community, with interviews, game reviews, tech articles and demo scene. Six months after the release of Spectrum Today issue #0 in Slovak language, the magazine is finally available in English! The translation is a bit rough around the edges, but it is still a great…

The Spectrum Show #30

[youtube tIXkFXgWrhA nolink] In the last episode of the series, we take a look at the news and top selling Spectrum games from July 1985. In an end of series special, we take a look at probably the best known game publisher on the Spectrum, Ultimate Play The Game.

ULAPLUS – Finally on your Speccy!

This time we present to you, dear user of ZX-Evo, ULAPLUS! You can play re-coloured games now, just download and install fresh new firmware for your ZX-Evo! Don’t forget also to update the ROM for best experience!Got problems? Post about it here. Yes we understand english. Website: http://nedopc.com

Retro Asylum : CJ in the USA

[youtube n1UEK54OYsw nolink] CJ the elephant returned to the ZX Spectrum in 1989, in a superb follow up to his last outing. This time CJ has to rescue his family who were capture an taken to the USA.

Ben's ZX Spectrum Mod Part 2

[youtube UTBZHjzwdQQ nolink] Ben continues the epic journey of modding a ZX Spectrum into a handheld device. He works to shrink the size of the circuitry as much as possible so the power of the Speccy can be in the palm of his hands. He makes progress and runs into some challenges with modding the circuitry before he goes through…

Ben's ZX Spectrum Mod Part 1

[youtube 6GcwcyL9LgM nolink] Ben has modded many old computers into gaming portables and today he takes a crack at something new – the ZX Spectrum. He gets started by taking the computer apart for a closer look inside. He makes sure it works by simulating loading a game from tape before he gets down to making modifications. He adds a…