Tag: Planeta Sinclair
Another ZX Spectrum title has been saved thanks to Planeta Sinclair. This one is called Soko Ban, and even though there is an entry for Soko Ban on Spectrum Computing, the full version .tzx of the game was still missing. You can download the game here: Soko Ban.TZXSource: Planeta Sinclair
This R-Type hack by Tyatin Sergey is already known, and can even be found online in TRD format. However, it was not yet available in .tzx, making the task difficult for those who wanted to play on the ZX Spectrum, toastrack or +2 grey only. But now, thanks to Mário Viegas, the situation has changed, as Planeta Sinclair have finally…
After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important: GOTY. To elect the nominees, first, the judges had to go through a list of 130 names and vote for five favourites (10 for GOTY). The result of this list is what…
The Planeta Sinclair blog and the Arca Lusitana archive present: 2022 Pascalated BASIC Contest! This contest invites any interested to write a program in ZX Spectrum BASIC using a more structured approach than the usual BASIC from the 80s offered at the time. In a nutshell, no GOTOs are allowed! The idea came from the fact that when the ZX Spectrum Next was launched, it…
I am a bit late on this, but I couldn’t let it pass unreported here. On January 29th, the great Portuguese website Planeta Sinclair held an online event in which they announced the results of the 2021 GOTY. Last night I watched the show and was very happy to see many quality games being made for the ZX Spectrum, and…
Planeta Sinclar, the Portuguese website dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, and in my opinion, the best one around for the Speccy, has announced the winners of GOTY 2020, the Game of the Year 2020 event that was held online this last Saturday. Other than ranking the best overall games of 2020, the event exalted the best games for different genres…
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
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…
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
