Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the UK video game scene orbited around magazines like Zzap!64 and CRASH. The former a Commodore 64 and Amiga title, the latter aimed at ZX Spectrum and Spectrum 128k users, these mags were stablemates at Newsfield Publications Ltd and later Europress Impact. Anyone activeRead More →
Remember games that relied on ASCII? You’ll look at them in a whole new way after playing LumASCII on Spectrum Next. Programming games from books back in the 1980s usually meant games relying on ASCII characters, rather than sprites. The recently resurfaced LumASCII is a wonderful callback to those days,Read More →
The passing of British computing legend Sir Clive Sinclair has been widely felt among retro gamers, especially those who there first time around and took their inspiration from the little rubber keyed ZX Spectrum. A reaction to the news is the Sinclair Book of Remembrance (SBOR), which aims “to createRead More →
A new YouTube video provdes an in-depth look at the Dan Dare game series available on 8-bit systems in the late 1980s Long ago there was a comic book hero called Dan Dare. Address the front and back covers of the eagle and 1950s boys magazine and Dare’s adventures tookRead More →
The Raspberry Pi Pico is the heart of potentially the smallest emulation platform. Twitter user bobricious has created a system that run Commodore 64, Atari 800, and ZX Spectrum games with a VGA output. With just a 133 MHz dual-core RP2040 processor, the sub-£5 board can be attached to aRead More →
Sir Clive Sinclair has passed away at 81. His impact on British home computing leaves a lasting, deeply ingrained legacy.Read More →
A development-hell port of Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis has finally completed! Rewind to 1996. I’ve finished my (deferred) A-levels and it’s a long hot summer. When I’m not playing guitar or watching Euro 96, I’m playing games on an Amiga 1200 (in the midst of the home PCRead More →
Travel Through Time Vol 1: Northern Lights doesn’t look as though it should run on a ZX Spectrum. But if yours has 128Kb of RAM, it does – and looks amazing! The Spectrum platform has been undergoing a gaming renaissance over the past few years, with a succession of increasinglyRead More →
Xenoblast is a brand new top-scrolling shoot ’em up for ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k models, available to buy now. This classic-style shooter features hordes of aliens and pods to collect to recharge the smart bomb. With an attractive main sprite and varied alien waves, it looks an engaging andRead More →
As Raspberry Pi based retro emulation projects go, this one takes some beating. Redditor jamhamster has squeezed a Pi Zero W into an old Boots cassette to emulate ZX Spectrum games. Released in 1982, the ZX Spectrum was insanely popular in the UK. Basically, of you didn’t have a CommodoreRead More →
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