Category: Sinclair News
Inspired by many previous chess games like David Horne’s ZX81 1K Chess (672 bytes), Olivier Poudade’s BootChess (487 bytes), Óscar Toledo Nanochess (392 bytes) and others, Alex Garcia has released what is probably the smallest chess program ever made, with only 377 bytes! For you to have an idea what that means, this first paragraph alone contains 389 characters! Alex…
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, has received, among others, a rare and valuable donation to be added to its collection. The ZX Spectrum prototype was donated by Kate and John Grant of Nine Tiles Inc. The company was responsible for writing the Sinclair BASIC for the ZX-80, ZX-81 and the Spectrum and kept this prototype all these…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
This is a quickie! Last Friday, Henrique Olifiers posted a quick update in the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing us a glorious picture of the ZX Spectrum Next keyboard! We’re now waiting for it to arrive so we can proceed testing the fit with the case and move ahead towards full production and shipping! Today, we saw another message…
I just finished watching Bandersnatch on Netflix and enjoyed it a lot! If you are a fan of visual novel games you will also enjoy the Black Mirror latest episode, which gives the watcher the power to decide how the movie will proceed and ends. In a nutshell (no spoilers) the main character is a young game programmer and the…
If you have bought Quadron for the ZX Spectrum you might want to know that there are two small updates available. The first includes the loading screen before entering the game menu. The screen was recreated from the original screen art from 1988. The second update is the availability of the game in TAP format, for those who prefer this…
We have seen from other retro-gaming sites like Planeta Sinclair the announcement of a new (old!) game for the ZX Spectrum, Quadron, an action game where you control a robot in charge of clearing the Quadron from the invaders. The Origins Andy “Cosmium” Beale had started developer Quadron in 1986-87 and after two years he completed it and was about to publish it…
After the wonderful release that was The Sword of Ianna, considered the best ZX Spectrum game of 2017 which also had a special edition released as physical copy, RetroWorks is back, this time releasing a compilation including many of the games published by them: Gommy, Medieval Defender King’s Valley Nelo & Quqo and the last butifarreison Teodoro can’t fly Genesis: dawn…
Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which in Brazil were represented by the Gradiente Expert and the Sharp HotBit. With that in mind, I started my research, trying to find a…
Unsurprisingly, the retro community is always presented with Halloween-themed games on October 31st. The one we picked to highlight here is Unhallowed, a traditional text adventure game that runs on any ZX Spectrum with 128K. (Blerkotron, the developer, was also kind enough to provide a special version that runs directly on any modern browser). The game page sets the mood:…
