Tag: ZX81
Stock-Car is a great little racer by Informatique Service with a bit of a Monaco GP vibe, most notably in the latter section where you’re in a tunnel and sometimes have only your headlights illuminating the track ahead of you. A New Translation by JohnsBargs. Download it here: sinclairzxworld.com
Mad Jack was published in Hebdogiciel magazine (issue 105) in 1985 and has now been translated into English by Johns. A fairly difficult 10-level puzzle platform game in which you must rob a mansion. You have to collect all the gold pieces on each screen to move on to the next one. Avoiding shots coming from the right of the screen. If…
We have some exclusive News today from none other than the great Jonathan Cauldwell. We received a Facebook dm, letting us know that he has just released a brand new ZX81 game titled Amidoh! The game is free to download, and any donations for his work would be gratefully accepted. Head over to https://jonathan-cauldwell.itch.io/amidoh now!Website: Egghead
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Even for those who didn’t like the ZX Spectrum Vega for its lack of a full keyboard cannot deny that the game console is a commercial success, and one of the big “retro” releases of 2015. For 2016, Retro Computers Ltd announce the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ accompanied of an IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign. This new model is a…
Terry Stewart has published an article teaching how to add a composite video output to your ZX81. Originally the ZX81 has only an RF output which can be tuned on channel 2 or 3 of a TV. More than often, these TVs are either hard to find or bulky to keep so having a more modern alternative to connect the…
The Edge is a new card game for the ZX81 coded by Johan “Dr Beep” Koelman. Requirements for this game – (1K, 16K, AY Card, Hi-Res Scheme): 1K, WRX hires. Description Card Game like patience, fill the edge with J, Q, K Controls: 12345 = Left67890 = RightQWERT = UPASDFG = DownYUIOP = Back to set modeBNMss sp = Set /…
We reported back in February about the demo version (shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum event 2015) of Dragons Lair for the humble ZX81 computer. We found some more information over at sellmyretro.com about the final release which is the full game and fully playable!, and they said it wasn’t possible! The game is available for just £10 and…
“Zombi Terror” is an adventure game, divided in two parts, where you can move through the different locations and make special actions by the options displayed on screen, and with a “battle system” based on “dice rolling”, just like some rpg-board games. In addition to the amount of graphics, Kabuto Factory have composed an audio soundtrack to ambient the game…
