Tag: sinclair
A book that celebrates the beauty of the ZX Spectrum. Full of pixel art, iconic box art and contributions from industry legends. Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium will focus on the visual side of the computer; from in-game pixel art to game maps to box artwork, the book will be crammed full of beautiful high-resolution, full-colour imagery. The ZX…
Ralf over at the Temporary World of Spectrum Forum has been playing around with existing game code of the classic title ‘Target Renegade’, adding colour here and there and changing a few things. Don’t worry though, this is still good old Renegade but with a twist. As you can see this mod has new backgrounds, but that’s not all. Play…
We reported back in January the BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest, and at that time we thought we would have plenty of time to participate, right? Wrong! The contest has ended last April 11th, and the results are already online. In the PUR category (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed) these are the top 10: 1. Carrera 3D2….
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
New versions of Spectaculator are now available on Google Play (v2.1) and the App Store (v6.1). The Android version has been updated to the same set officially licensed ZX Spectrum games as the iOS version. New games added Finders Keepers Spellbound Knight Tyme Stormbringer Android: Google Play (v2.1) iOS: App Store (v6.1)Windows: spectaculator80.msi Website: http://www.spectaculator.com
[youtube p0OFBRKwKKQ nolink] Escape from Cnossus is a rogue-like for the ZX Spectrum, made with Boriel’s ZXBasic compiler. It’s a minimalist coffeebreak game; It’s possible to complete the game in about 40 minutes.You can play the game online courtesy of the JSSpeccy emulator or you can download it from the link below and play it on your favourite Speccy emulator….
With the Jakadapter you can connect two Atari-style joysticks to USB. This new version has the following changes: Both ports have now 8 configurable pins, for better support for other joysticks and paddles. The firmware is upgradeable via a boot-loader for future firmware updates. Website: http://kair.us/projects/jakadapter/index.html
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…
Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga. Features: Emulation of all Z80 instructions, flags, registers and interrupts. Support for keyboard, Kempston joystick / mouse, border, sound, 1818VG93 and load & save in many formats. Website: http://aminet.net
