If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game you buy, you won't get everything that's available unless you're rich enough (and a bit lacking in brain cells) ...

While cleaning up my PC a few weeks ago, I stumbled across an old Jet Set Willy mod I started back in the early 2000s. Although I don't quite have the energy I did back in those teenage years, I've been polishing it vigorously and, now that I'm close to ...

  

  

Inspired by Steven Spielberg's movie "Jaws", indie developer Matt Round created an awesome browser game in HTML5, intended to imitate the style of a classic ZX-Spectrum text adventure in Sinclair BASIC.
As a "homage" ...

Hi everybody, I am looking for the operating system for this curious/rare peripheral:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/hardware/feat44.html

"The Watford Electronics interface connects BBC disk drives,
of which there are plenty, ...

Yerzmyey asked me to report that he has been unable to login to this forum. The option to retrieve/reset password didn't work for him either.
Could someone please help him? Thank you.

Help anyone - I'm new and not very technical, as many of you here seem to be, just trying to be creative - I'm making a humble project/game which involves five or six Spectrums (128 heatsink models) which control and play a Laser-Disc player and Laserdisc ...

Hi,
I've released a re-write of a re-write I did in the 90's for Manic Miner.
This one is available for OS X and windows, and uses Andy Nobles graphics (he updated them) with his permission.
My original version which used to be on my old ...

My chum Ryan Lambie wrote this for Den Of Geek, showcasing how 8-bit formats showcased classic scenes from Hollywood movies...http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/tie-in-games/35565/10-80s-film-scenes-as-seen-in-their-tie-in-videogames
All ten movies made ...

Suminell Studios has announced the development of a ZX Spectrum styled shoot em up in a similar style to R-Type, Gradius and Nemesis for both Android and iOS based devices!

https://shar.es/12WeKh
( I wasn't sure where to put this post )

The Dizzy Fansite  

Thanks to a mention by Andrew Joseph you can now play all of the Dizzy games such as Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure and Treasure Island Dizzy, right up to the spin offs including Bubble Dizzy and Kwik Snax.
< ...

Hi Folks,
I have seen the odd issue 3 and 3b’s with added components
to the power circuit on these machines, an extra BA157?  and 22uf (?) Cap.

I think Issues 4’s and onwards seem to have these extra parts
as part of the ...

Hi - I recently won a 128K toast rack, and have got a Retroleum smart card. I've tried a couple of games and all seems fine...-ish.
However, on running the diagnostic test ROM I get a few issues:
1. Z,X,C,V on the keyboard have gone pop. This ...

I'm hoping someone can provide a bit of hand-holding and advice?
I've had the good fortune to acquire a new, unused Spanish +2b. It was so nice to use, and wanting to preserve it for my collection, I went back and accidentally bought another :p
...

Ten mystery sounds from Spectrum games that come from pressing the Shoot game. I reckon some of these are really hard, but you guys never cease to amaze me.
https://soundcloud.com/morphsounds/shooting-sound-effects-from-spectrum-games
(Hint : I ...

As you might know, the N64 version of id's first person shooter, Doom, was ported by a fan to the PC a few years back (since Doom 64 had all new levels, and was actually a Doom game, as opposed to the non-Doom-ishness of the official Doom 3 game >:P). ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYNHJMxntc

so what do you think, they've got character movement a la r-type and the backgrounds are laid out in such a way that it takes into consideration speccy attribute boundaries as a colour scrolling ...

Hi there
A couple of years ago, I wrote a little software called PlayTZX and published it on Google Play Store.
This application strongly relies on Sinclair Infoseek Data API. As the API is broken, my application was useless.
So I decided ...

Just discovered that Brian Bagnall will use Kickstarter to release the most avaited book (almost for me) Commodore: The Amiga Years.The campaign will start on 15 Jun 2015 as announced on Facebookhttps://www.facebook...4051909?fref=nf

Uwe Boll has been trying to fund a film on Kickstarter, Rampage 3, which looked every bit as good as Alone In The Dark..
Unfortunately for Uwe, it looks like his Kickstarter will be unsuccessful as they need to make $30,000 in the next 4 days. He ...

Here is my disassembly of Gunfright originally published by Ultimate Play The Game in 1986.Gunfright Disassembly for ZX SpectrumAgain, I used @clausjahn's ZX Preview (run in OS X using Wine) to create the various disassembly files.Regards,Derek.

Ok, this is probably a really daft idea, but as games club seems to be suspended for now I thought I'd suggest a small variation. I was thinking about it after realising that I haven't really completed many speccy games.
Basically I was thinking that ...

... good routines for printing a font double height?I've concocted ...

:( 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html
telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html

In the layout style of Rorthron.....These snippets are from inlays and advertisements for Spectrum games and utilities.


Some easy, some real stinkers and a couple of WTF?!!
Over to you!

A trial version of my CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of code containing character graphics that you can load from BASIC, call once, and then access all the new functions simply through the LPRINT command ...

... show detailed gameplay informations. New font-set added as well (exactly ...

Fascinating stuff...
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-chat-with-bob-wakelin-the-artist-behind-the-most-iconic-game-art-of-the-80s

Fogartylee asked me in this thread to post a screenshot. Posting a few here.

OS is an up-to-date Debian testing install (Linux). In case anyone is wondering, desktop is MATE.

Chromium (which I rarely use) is basically Google's ...

I need to play some AY sound effects, so I've been experimenting with Shiru's AYFX Editor package (and his player code) as that seems simple and suitable, but there's a couple of things I don't understand.
This is what I'm working with btw: https:// ...

Hi
I have a Grundy Newbrain Model AD (Display) that I would like to sell. It got the annoying Capacitor problem, that means it needs some time to start up if it hasn't been used in a while, but people who have a little experience in fixing computers ...