Tag: ZX Spectrum Next News
The ZX Spectrum Kickstarter has been a thrilling soap opera we all have been following for the past two and a half years, almost as long as Days of our Lives. The journey is not short of soap-opera-like surprises, bad news and even cliff hangers. While the end date is still to be defined, the newest update 51 brings more…
When the Project Update #37 has arrived in my mailbox yesterday, I quickly opened it with my hopes up, looking for a delivery date or something on those lines. Unfortunately, the project had another setback, now with the keyboard. Henrique was waiting for new updates from the partner handling the keyboard project on Sep 22nd, but so far, the partner hasn’t…
Back in February, we shared some News about a new platformer coming to the ZX Spectrum Next called Monkey McGee: Where are my Bananas? Fast forward to May and we can see that John, Simon (Miami Vice, Platoon, Target Renegade) and Paul have been hard at work getting the game together, showing off a brand new promo video! The first…
MonkeyMcGee is a new work in progress game by John McManus (Code), Simon Butler and Paul Sidman Hesso for the ZX Spectrum Next. Simon is handling the graphics and so far, it’s looking fantastic! Beautiful bright vibrant colours, clearly showing the “Next” step in ZX Spectrum gaming. Little MonkeyMcGee is pixel perfect, along with some interesting looking enemies, electricity and various other…
Today Lampros Potamianos (WASP Team) has announced that his new Arkanoid clone “Nextoid” for the ZX Spectrum Next is almost complete and will be released soon with the Next TB-Blue distribution package. All that is left to do is some debugging, level design and add some music jingles. Below is a demo of some of the levels. Lampros mentions that…
The backers that opted in to get the ZX Spectrum Next board were happy to see their packages waiting for them at their doorstep but as soon some of them hooked it up, they were surprised by some unforeseen problems. The main issues are related to the keyboard, HDMI, and problems with the screen. Early this morning, Henrique Olifiers wrote a…
Henrique Olifiers has posted an update about the Spectrum Next updates. Here is our summary: Boards Production The bad: the board-only deadline has passed by more than a month and the new date is not defined yet. The good: all the components are now delivered to the factory, including the RAM sockets that had to be hand-spooled into a reel to so…
As I am writing this post, the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is entering its last week and is £991 short to reach the astonishing mark of half million pounds! Henrique and team had created a new stretch goal to be unlocked after the £500,000 mark that will make all backers very happy: a new Dizzy game made exclusively for the ZX Spectrum…
It is typical for any Kickstarter project the existence of stretch goals. The idea is to either improve the product or give extra perks if the funding money passes the target goal for a good margin and reaches other targets values. When launched, we noticed that the ZX Spectrum Next didn’t have any stretch goal defined, which is not really uncommon,…
