Tag: zx spectrum

Mr.Do! ZX Spectrum Remake Released! (Mark R. Jones & Adrian Singh)

Way back in February 2018, we announced some interesting News about an upcoming Arcade remake of Mr.Do! for the ZX Spectrum which you can read about here. Mr.Do! is an Arcade game created by Universal in 1982, similar to Namco’s Dig Dug. Mr. Do! was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple…

Foggy’s Quest 2 in development for ZX Spectrum!

John Blythe serves up some early screenshots of this dazzling sequel!

Nixy and the Seeds of Doom coming to ZX Spectrum!

Andy Johns reveals the return of Nixy with some early screenshots in this AGD-powered sequel for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum Vega+ makes its way to some backers

The latest chapter of the intriguing ZX Spectrum Vega + saga has been written with an actual unit confirmed to have made its way to a backer. Retro Computers  announced last Friday, on their Facebook page, that there were going to immediately start shipping the first 400 units to ‘backers who had asked to received their unit without the 1,000 game…

BizHawk multi-system Emulator 2.3 Released!

Retrogaming fans looking for an excellent, easy-to-use emulator with which to play their games ought to check out BizHawk, a multi-platform emulator written in C#. BizHawk supports a wide range of platforms, including Mega Drive, SNES, Saturn, Atari 7800, C64 and many more. However, the main reason why you would want to use Bizhawk over other emulators is it’s plethora…

Manic Miner remake in the works for the ZX Spectrum!

We first reported on the ZX-Dev-MIA-Remakes competition back at the beginning of June, and things are certain starting to hot up as our friends at Planeta Sinclair have been keeping a watchful eye on the various entries submitted so far. The objective of the competition is for budding coders to remake a classic Spectrum game of their choice that was…

Tank 1990, A New Shoot ’em up for the ZX Spectrum!

More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…

Officially Licensed Remake of Classic Skool Daze now available on Windows & Mac OS

Longly considered as the pioneer of the sandbox game genre, Skool Daze was released way back in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 to great success and is a favourite to many who experienced 8-bit computer gaming in the mid 1980s. There have been a number of remakes of this innovative classic, including last year’s great effort titled…

3D Monster Maze ZX81 Colour Remake

Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News not long ago, about a colour remake of 3D Monster Maze. For those of you that are not familiar, the game was released way back in 1982, developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 with 16 KB of memory expansion. 3D Monster Maze puts the player…