Tag: sinclair
CinnyVision episode 115 has brought a fascinating featured article telling the story about how Amstrad bought Sinclair back in 1986. The report claims to dig deep into the facts, which are not always accurate throughout the Internet with articles based on magazine reports from that time when not all facts have been fully understood, or even publicized. The video also…
This compo is really interesting. While most compos would not allow anything other than standard machines, ZX Enhanced takes the opposite approach. Only ZX Spectrum compatible machines that have some enhancement can participate. The compo rules state that “target platforms must be equipped with various extensions like graphic modes other than ‘6912’, RAM above 128kB, CPU clock frequency above 3.5MHz…
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
Retro Computers, the company behind the ZX Spectrum VEGA just announced its Christmas special promotion. For the twelve weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year, Retro Computers will be placing eleven golden tickets at random into boxes of the ZX Spectrum Vega. If you’re lucky enough to find one, then not only will you receive your ‘normal’ black…
Last year Ben Heck built a ZX Spectrum clone, and made it a portable unit. This time, he wants to try again, but doing it properly, in a way other people could build their own unit, following a cleaner project than the previous one. This 26-minute video is the first part. If you like tinkering with hardware or build stuff,…
Let’s be honest here, neither Recreated ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum Vega are a real recreation of the iconic and beloved Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but that doesn’t take away the value of these two modern hardwares: bringing back to a broader audience the experience to play all the great ZX Spectrum games. Recreated ZX Spectrum is a Spectrum-alike keyboard that…
Last week we announced Vitno Exclusive News about the upcoming underwater Speccy platformer called Aquanoids. Today we are excited to announce that the final version has now been released and you can download it here on Vintage is the New Old, from the link below. You can read everything you need to know about this fantastic new game over at…
Platform: ZX Spectrum Type: Game Release date: August 2015 Release party: Chaos Constructions 2015 Compo: gamedev Ranked: 2nd [youtube W9dCFcMJ3Uw nolink] Code: Jerri Title screen: brightentayle Music: mmcm Download: bathyscaphe_eng.zip Forum Thread: http://zx-pk.ru Website: http://www.pouet.net
After more than a month in its development and subsequent testing, we have some fantastic exclusive News from Neil Parsons aka Program Bytes 48k (P.B.48K). A new homebrew ZX Spectrum game is due to be released on Sunday September the 6th called Aquanoids! Currently there is very little information about this game other than it looks to be an interesting…
Denis Grachev over at the World of Spectrum forums has released a new shoot ’em up titled LiruS. Originally coded way back in 1998 by Denis & Friends, this little shooter has been lovingly restored and recreated with some new ideas and new original levels for 2015! Download in the link below, have fun! :) [youtube GCQpq8TIoxU nolink] Download: lirus.zip…
