Tag: Speccy
Duel day is a remake of the Spectrum classic High Noon. The idea of this game is keeping loyal to the 1983 original, but bringing it playable to people with Android devices, whilst still keeping its ‘Retro’ look and feel. As it’s on the Android Platform, this will allow you to play the game on your phone, tablet and even…
Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…
Peter McQuillan (soiaf) from World of Spectrum forums is relatively new to coding, he started learning to code in z80 assembly only earlier this year, reading Jonathan Cauldwell’s “How to write ZX Spectrum Games” and from reading articles in the development section of WOS. However within this short amount of time, he has come up with a fantastic new Tetris…
mariuszw on AtariAge forum has ported over Ocean’s ‘The Great Escape‘ to the 8bit Atari!The Great Escape was originally released back in the 80’s on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and also DOS. The perspective is an isometric view, much like Batman and Head over Heels on the ZX Spectrum. ScenarioThe player controls an unnamed prisoner of war…
Grass! .. Never had so much fun, Grass! .. Never had so much fun!Ever felt like cutting the grass for fun? Nope me neither! However this is definitely more entertaining than physically cutting real grass. The GameAll you have to do is to mow lawns, precisely and accurately. The game consists of two stages, first stage – a simple “fact-finding”,…
Euphoria 2D is a new turn-based strategy for the ZX Spectrum. It’s a cross between “The Kingdom of Euphoria” and “Civilization”, but closer to the latter. The game is in two languages – Russian and English.Latest Changes and additions– Farmers can cut wood and key K (“take”), not only to 0 (“pull down”);– Stone extracted once from a mountain, but…
Jet Set Willy is a platform video game originally written by Matthew Smith for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published in 1984 by Software Projects and ported to most home computers of the time. The game is a sequel to Manic Miner published in 1983, and is the second game in the Miner Willy Series.Jet Set Willy 2015…
Inspired by Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws”, indie developer Matt Round created an awesome browser game in HTML5, intended to imitate the style of a classic ZX-Spectrum text adventure in Sinclair BASIC. As a “homage” to his original work, Einar Saukas decided to port it for real to the ZX-Spectrum, using only Sinclair BASIC statements to ensure a 100% authentic feeling….
Oceano is an Amstrad deep sea submarine maze game made in AGD by EgoTrip and he has also ported it over to the Spectrum too. Amy decided to explore the seas in search of 20 fabled power crystals that have long been lost in the ocean. However there are robotic fish guarding them, and acidic bubbles that can damage her…
Originally a Speccy title, Duck Out! is 2D side-scrolling beat’em up. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with a girl. Along the way, this crazy duck ends up fighting numerous enemies such as scary middle aged men, cats, dogs and lizards! The…
