Tag: Spectrum VEGA
Kim Justice has published a video on his YouTube channel talking about the ZX Spectrum homebrew scene. The video covers the basics showing briefly the tools that an inspiring ZX Spectrum developer can use, and finally talks about the 5 best Speccy homebrew games: Ooze, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude, Circuitry, Roboprobe, and Deep Blue. [vsw id=”rNWIJ4Dz3uo” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]
As the Kickstarter campaign goes, some backers and potential ones have raised a few technical questions about the ZX Spectrum Next, mostly related to the Wi-Fi, Realtime clock, and the Raspberry PI Zero. To avoid misunderstandings and help people deciding what model to get, Victor Trucco came out on Facebook to answer the most pressing questions. Will old software work…
If you are not following the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group you will love to know that the ZX Spectrum Next development is reaching important milestones. The developers have received another prototype of the machine which shows a PCB that will be probably very close to the one offered as the final product. It features several interfaces that will make any…
The Project After the VEGA handheld success, all the Commodore enthusiasts were dying out of jealousy. There are reports of C64 fans secretly buying the VEGA but we cannot confirm that! If you were one of those, you would be excited to know about this new crowdfunding campaign: ‘The 64’ – A pair of devices aimed to play C64 games….
World of Spectrum user has announced the release of his entry for the ZX-DEV 2015 comp – Chrimblast!, a Shoot’em Up game where you have to shoot the enemies and collect the presents (!!!). The game has 8 levels, but it is actually a very well-done game with nice graphics and good background music. The sprite flickering that the author warned on…
For programmers and curious alike, I’ve found an interesting article written by Eugene Zaikonnikov about LISP for the ZX Spectrum. Home users had usually to rely on the built-in BASIC or buy 3rd party packages to program in PASCAL, C and other languages. Serious Software SpecLisp is the LISP implementation for the Speccy, and now with plenty of information available at the…
