Tag: ZX Spectrum Games
The summer releases from Teknamic Software have arrived, the Portuguese publisher dedicated to supporting the publication of new games for old platforms, and to reissuing classics as a tribute to their creators and pioneers. With these three new releases, Teknamic has stepped up a notch in terms of the cassette presentation. Instead of the usual paper insert for the cassette…
N10, a small indie developer team has released today a new game for the ZX Spectrum to celebrate their love and passion for Speccy and Duck Tales. In Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue, Uncle Scrooge with his nephews and Webby set off for the Carpathian country, where there is a long-abandoned old castle called Fort Cockroach. Legend says…
Double Sided Games has added two great games to their catalogue: Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 and Vegetables Deluxe for the ZX Spectrum. Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 DBTB is an action/puzzle game for 1 or 2 players in co-operation or duel for the Commodore 64. Controlling a fan, you need to blow the…
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
Manic Miner, one of the best-sellers games released for the ZX Spectrum, has been ported for the Apple II, and the source code is available on Github. I’ve reached out to the author, “StewBC”, and he was kind enough to answer my questions and more! Stefan Wessels, a fellow Canadian living in British Columbia, first saw Manic Miner at a…
Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a powerful enemy that has excellent earing and memory as well as great hierarchical organization capability. The enemy’s AI is a strong selling point of the game. The waves of Laserbirds,…
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
If you have bought Quadron for the ZX Spectrum you might want to know that there are two small updates available. The first includes the loading screen before entering the game menu. The screen was recreated from the original screen art from 1988. The second update is the availability of the game in TAP format, for those who prefer this…
Thursday we shared News about Nixy The Glade Sprite, which is Andy Johns brand new ZX Spectrum platformer. Today we have some exciting exclusive News to share! Nixy The Glade Sprite is now officially released and you can download it right now, here at Vintage is the New Old! Andy has also announced his new website for current and future…
As an avid Speccy fan, I often visit the fantastic Planet Sinclair website. It’s a mountain of ZX Spectrum information, and there is always something new there to read. The website is not native English, however I personally think it is worth running it through a translator, Chrome browser has one built in and comes in very handy. Listed below…
