Category: Sinclair News
As an avid Speccy fan, I often visit the fantastic Planet Sinclair website. It’s a mountain of ZX Spectrum information, and there is always something new there to read. The website is not native English, however I personally think it is worth running it through a translator, Chrome browser has one built in and comes in very handy. Listed below…
It is with great sadness that we learned that Rick Dickinson lost the battle against cancer and passed away on April 24th. Rick had a very successful career but for us, retro enthusiasts, he was well-known for the design of the ZX-81, the ZX Spectrum, and the Sinclair QL. The Sinclair machines were successful for many reasons, from price to…
Finally concrete good news! Henrique has sent today a new update to the Next Kickstarter campaign telling us that the cases production has started and if all goes as planned, it will be ready in 35 days! Here is the full announcement: Ladies and gentlemen, we have good news at last: the Spectrum Next case mould is already in production…
Espectro Magazine is a Portuguese-speaking printed publication fully devoted to the ZX Spectrum. It is a co-production between Portuguese and Brazilian enthusiasts, who just announced the issue #3. The new issue brings a treat for its readers: a cover tape! Yes, the magazine will have a cassette tape bundled and it will include four games, including two exclusively available for…
We have recently learnt News of a new game preview release by Retrobytes. It’s our understanding that “World War Simulator Part II” will be released coincide the Amstrad Eterno event in Barcelona, from Saturday April 21st until Sunday afternoon April 22nd. The game shares similarities to Pandora’s “Into the Eagles Nest” originally released way back in 1986. World War Simulator…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
Kev Mcg over on the AGD Facebook Group, recently shared another teaser of his upcoming Speccy game titled “Savage Princess”. Rather than a cutesy approach, Kev has chosen deep blues, depicting a dark and cold dungeon in which the main character, a beautiful princess, casts off her shackles, and begins to plan her escape route. This will be no easy…
Dave Clarke of Impossabubble fame, has announced on Facebook that he’s updating his old game “Brick Racer” for the ZX Spectrum. The game was originally made last year, and judging by his comments on the AGD Facebook Group, it looks like he’s making good progress. It’s getting there. I plan to also have a ‘modern’ version. At the moment I…
Allan Turvey contacted us the other day to let us know that he recently released a patch for Airwolf on the ZX Spectrum. Hi Sarah – here’s an intro to an Airwolf mod I did which makes the game look a bit more realistic. I also added a tiny sprite which is quite a lot of fun. YouTube Info: A…
If your into the ZX Spectrum Scene, you will be familiar with the name John Blythe. John is the creator of some excellent AGD games such as; The Incredible Shrinking Professor, Foggy’s Quest and Circuitry. Rucksack Games is the name John chose for his website, and is also the name of his software label. All the games on the website…
