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Just a quick post to let you know, Dave Clarkes new Speccy game is now available as a digital download! You can purchase Impossabubble right now for the pocket money price of only $1.49! I paid more than that for a Vanilla Latte today! Head over to retrobeachman.itch.io and grab your copy now! [vsw id=”hJMugcHBVeQ” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]There have…
A few days ago we gave you the latest heads up on Allan Turvey’s playable demo of ‘Roust’ (ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust). Today, as promised we have some more exciting Retro News! For the pocket money price of only $2.50 (Is it 1982 again?), you can purchase the full version, so head over to highriser.itch.io/roust…
Early January I made post (along with some other ZX Spectrum homebrew releases) about Allan Turvey’s ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. “Roust” is Allan’s entry to the ZX-Dev conversions competition and he recently shared a fully playable free demo on the Spectrum for Everyone Facebook group! You can download the demo below, a full version is to…
We are only a few days into 2018 and already the Speccy News has started flowing in! Today with have some new ZX Spectrum Homebrew releases to talk about, so without further ado, let’s get on with it! First up we have a new game called ‘Jilly’s Farm Volume 1’ by Bob Smith (Bob’s Stuff), which is an isometric title…
R-Tape from the ZX Spectrum Next forums has recently released a fantastic new Christmas ZX Spectrum Tape Magazine called Woot! Features: -A Next article -Games/Demos from Bob Fossil, TextVoyage, Spud, R-Tape, Mat Gubbins, Utz, Ste Nichols -Articles, puzzles, stuff from various contributors of the scene. Download: Woot_2017_final.zip Download: WOOT_ZXMAS_tapemagazine.zip Source: ZX Spectrum Next Forums
Blerk over at World of Spectrum forums has recently posted about a new turn-based space strategy game called Break/Space. The game was originally created for the ZX BASIC Game Jam and received good feedback albeit running a little on the slow side. Blerk has spent the last few weeks converting it to compile under Boriel’s ZX Basic. The end result…
Psytronik Software are known mostly for releasing tape and disks versions of Commodore games, while browsing the website as I do daily, I noticed for the 35th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum they are offering their very first ZX Spectrum tape release! ‘Robot 1 in … THE SHIP OF DOOM’ is now available to order for £6.99 over at Binary…
The Crash Annual 2018 Kickstarter smashed it’s goal target within a day! For those of you that aren’t so Speccy savvy, Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. At time of writing the Kickstarter has reached…
Those of you who are closely following and maybe even backing the ZX Spectrum Next, may be pleased to know that Victor Trucco recently added a new video on YouTube showing WAV files playing on the Next! I am pretty savvy when it comes to computers and technology but the way this was achieved kinda flew right over my head…
Hot off the press! Gabriele Amore (Donkey Kong Jr, Crazy Kong City, Castle Capers) has just given us the heads up about a brand new game which he released today. “MONKEY J: The treasure of the gold temple that was lost in the forest until he (or she?) found it”, (takes a breath, phew!) is a gorgeous new platformer starring…
