Tag: zx spectrum
Way back in May 2015 we announced a new game port called Duck Out (2D side-scrolling beat’em up). Duck Out was first released for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in 1989 by Dro Soft. 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…
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
Brendan Alford has just released zx-diagnostics v0.36 New features: ROMCheck utility, generates ROM checksums for machines with unknown machines. New ROM sets: Derby 4.02, TK90x/TK95 If ROM is not recognised and the user doesn’t make a machine selection, after 20 seconds the diagnostics assume 48K mode. Beeps to indicate test start are accompanied by cycling through all colours in the…
R-Tape from the ZX Spectrum Next forums has recently released a fantastic new Christmas ZX Spectrum Tape Magazine called Woot! Features: -A Next article -Games/Demos from Bob Fossil, TextVoyage, Spud, R-Tape, Mat Gubbins, Utz, Ste Nichols -Articles, puzzles, stuff from various contributors of the scene. Download: Woot_2017_final.zip Download: WOOT_ZXMAS_tapemagazine.zip Source: ZX Spectrum Next Forums
Sunteam has released their first game for the ZX Spectrum 48K/128K. That Sinking Feeling has you take control of a cute little submarine who is tasked to gather treasure from the ruins of the planet Atlantis. You have no weapons, so you have to skillfully dodge all manner of hazards in your quest – from toxic bubbles to mines, as…
Blerk over at World of Spectrum forums has recently posted about a new turn-based space strategy game called Break/Space. The game was originally created for the ZX BASIC Game Jam and received good feedback albeit running a little on the slow side. Blerk has spent the last few weeks converting it to compile under Boriel’s ZX Basic. The end result…
Psytronik Software are known mostly for releasing tape and disks versions of Commodore games, while browsing the website as I do daily, I noticed for the 35th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum they are offering their very first ZX Spectrum tape release! ‘Robot 1 in … THE SHIP OF DOOM’ is now available to order for £6.99 over at Binary…
The Crash Annual 2018 Kickstarter smashed it’s goal target within a day! For those of you that aren’t so Speccy savvy, Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. At time of writing the Kickstarter has reached…
Jim Bagley has just returned from a meeting with Henrique Olifiers and SMS Electronics, which took place in Nottingham. The meeting was to discus the Next test board run which should hopefully be delivered to Henrique by a week on Monday! Once the boards have been thoroughly tested, the go ahead for the board only run will take place and…
After 2 decades W.A.S.P. (We are Spectrum Programmers) are back! If you have never heard of W.A.S.P, they are responsible for a fair few well known games from your childhood, including classics such as “Bubble Dizzy“, “Quick Snax” and “Robin Hood, Legend Quest“. Their first ZX Next game “Dream World Pogie“, has a target release date of January 2018 to…
