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26Feb/15Off

Sochiparty 2015 Voting is Open

posted by TecSoft

ZX Spectrum prods online!

7 pictures, 4 music compositions and 2 demos.

Follow this link to vote.

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23Feb/15Off

Brand New Game: The Tales of Grupp

posted by TecSoft

Title: The Tales of Grupp
Author: Retrobytes Productions
Release date: 2015-02-20
Download: http://retrobytesproductions.blogspot.com.es

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23Feb/15Off

Results of Winter Chip X (Battle of the Bits)

posted by Yerzmyey

The BEEPER / ZX48 compo:

01. MISTER BEEP - Interstellar Drift
[POLAND]

02. Ktcmoop - Bubble Cane
[UNKNOWN]

03. Interrobang Pie - Freshly Glazed
[UNITED KINGDOM]

04. irrlicht project - movement.16
[NETHERLANDS] actually it's *.de)

05. MKSTAR26 - IIS. Machine: Improvise
[UNITED KINGDOM]

06. FrankT - Cosmic Hope
[UNITED KINGDOM]

07. mk7 - Mighty Phas0r
[RUSSIAN FEDERATION]

Songs (also from other compos of the Winter Chip X ) — http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Battle/2301/Winter+Chip+X.

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13Feb/15Off

Brand New Game: Castlevania — Spectral Interlude!!!

posted by news

Even if Konami lost all interest in making proper Castlevania games, Dracula's Castle can’t be kept in the void forever. It just so happens, that this time fans were the ones to aid in it’s return.

It was originally invisioned as a „demake” of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest but eventually turned into an original independent game for ZX Spectrum.

It is an action-adventure platform game with elements of RPG. It merges well known elements of classic games with some new ideas. It tells a new story which tries to remain consistent with the canon of original franchise and explains why Belmonts disappeared for many years.

Dracula's Castle is awaiting new guests!

DOWNLOAD THE GAME!

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12Feb/15Off

pulsar + thery = yura

posted by news

Yura [pulsar+thery] was born today on 12 February, 2015 at 5:25 AM. Congratulations and Happy birthday to the parents and their son!

What a beautiful day!
It will light the way!

Tagged as: birthday, congratulations, son 1 Comment

9Feb/15Off

ZEsarUX v2.0 Released

posted by TecSoft

ZEsarUX is a Sinclair ZX Machines Emulator for Unix (Mac OS X Yosemite, Linux), including:
— ZX80
— ZX81
— ZX Spectrum
— Z88.

Changes are:

Added Cambridge Z88 emulation
Added Real audio tape loading on ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81 (.rwa, .smp, .wav, .tzx, .tap, .p, .o formats). It handles loading of turbo load tapes or any type of tape loading for standard/non standard loading routines
Added Support for Chroma81 - Colour mode on ZX81
Added interlace and scanlines mode
Added Gigascreen mode
Added option to autoenable AY Chip when it is needed
Added option to change View Waveform Shape
Added option to find bytes, useful to discover POKEs
Added option to emulate RAM refresh
Added option to enable CPU transaction log
Added option to View Basic
Added loading support for ZX80 snapshot .z81
Changed .ZX snapshot to version 5 to support Z88 snapshots
Improved Beeper sound on all machines: Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Z88
Improved Inves Spectrum+ emulation
Fixed idle bus port value on +2A machines and memory paging enabled
Fixed timing with CALL opcodes, better ZX80/81/Spectrum hi-res video effects. No more need to use Video t_states offset on ZX81
Fixed MEMPTR value on some opcodes
Fixed cpu initializing registers and magic RANDOMIZE USR 46578. See http://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2319
Fixed cpu opcode OUT(N),A
Fixed WRX mode on ZX81 and last column
Fixed ZX80/81 display bug and linecntr counter
Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Download the latest version.

Tagged as: emulators, zx spectrum, zx80, ZX81 1 Comment

9Feb/15Off

Brand New Game: Rebound [ZX81]

posted by TecSoft

Author: Bob Smith
Release Date: 23/12/2014
Requirements: 16K (ZXExpand joystick & Chroma 81 colour support)
Description: Breakout / Arkanoid clone.

Download the game.

Tagged as: games, ZX81 1 Comment

9Feb/15Off

Brand New Game: Pandemic [ZX81]

posted by TecSoft

Author: Bob Smith
Release Date: 15/11/2014
Requirements: 16K (ZXExpand joystick support)
Description: Top-down map-based shooter

Download the game.

Tagged as: games, ZX81 No Comments

4Feb/15Off

The Spectrum Show #37

posted by TecSoft

In this episode we take a look at the Sinclair news and top selling Spectrum games from February 1986.

Tagged as: games, podcast, video No Comments

2Feb/15Off

iZX v2.2

posted by Vinnny

Эмулятор iZX для iOS стал бесплатным. Артем Базаркин всё меньше и меньше располагает свободным временем на разработку эмулятора. Тем не менее, добавлена возможность POKE, поддержка iOS8, и прочее.

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2Feb/15Off

ZXDS v1.3.3

posted by Vinnny

Patrik Rak обновил эмулятор ZXDS для консоли Nintendo DS. Добавлен список последних загружаемых файлов, исправлена статистика, исправлены ошибки.

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1Feb/15Off

Hype blog

posted by Vinnny

Запущен новый блог Hype, претендующий на статус развлекательного портала по ретро-тематике. Статьи на серьёзные темы, тем не менее, приветствуются. По задумке сайт должен стать первым, который ты открываешь каждое новое утро. Вливаемся!

Tagged as: blog 16 Comments

30Jan/15Off

CC Winter / DiHalt Lite 2015 Releases

posted by TecSoft

Download the pack or visit the Pouet.net page.

Watch the gfx or listen music online at ZX Art.

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30Jan/15Off

CC Winter / DiHalt Lite 2015 Results

posted by TecSoft

New Year Gift
01 171 Yet another HNY 2k15 gift by Buyan & Splinter
02 160 NEW YEAR GIFT FROM THREE SANTA by Hacker VBI, nodeus, N1k-O
03 154 Trigona Kalanda by Kakos_nonos/Kabardcomp
04 150 New year 2015 gift by kotsoft
05 144 HAPPY NEW 2015 ZX YEAR by nodeus / light future

ZX Enhanced Demo
01 202 Pixel Demo by AAABand Group
02 156 Fractus 3D by deFarce/deFarce

ZX Spectrum Demo
01 175 T.D.S.I. by denpopov,g0blinish
02 148 DiHalt Gagarin Tunneltro by DiHalt visitors
03 131 Pohod by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp

Tiny Intro
01 182 streams of gaia by sensenstahl
02 143 SnowFall by g0blinish/
03 124 Plasmoid by wbc ^ b-state

ZX Spectrum Intro
01 168 Winter Mega Party by tiboh
02 158 Rhombus by denpopov
03 141 Hypno by g0blinish

Animation/Video + Wild
01 142 mech-10 by nodeus

ZX Spectrum Graphics
01 241 "np" (New year Picture) by prof4d
02 206 Pirate by Buddy
03 184 Party Girl by Dimidrol
04 158 Raven by Lilka
05 143 Manyaschie dali by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp
06 135 Strange Phone by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp
07 131 Insight by Lilka
08 120 1 plus 1 by Lilka

ZX Spectrum Music
01 185 [abandoned] temple at night by scalesmann/march[ing] cats feat virtual man
02 180 January Days by MmcM/Sage
03 153 bright clearing by scalesmann/march[ing] cats feat coma of 3el
04 150 unused lips by scalesmann
05 147 39 inches by scalesmann
06 145 Bit Attack by Alone Coder
07 142 Squeak from heaven by wbc ^ b-state
08 91 Dont Fear the Beeper (and AY) by Abrimaal

Graphics
01 172 ice wyvern by nodeus
02 152 mech-10 by nodeus
03 142 Star Trek'73 by mr_r0ckers
04 134 Idut by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp
05 132 vulcan by Rainman / deMarche
06 98 Planeta by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp

Multichannel Music
01 173 end of winter by kotsoft
02 121 synth that way! by wbc ^ b-state

Fast Graphics
01 164 untitled 897 by prince/the Obsessed Maniacs / TRSi
02 140 difference by John Norton Irr/Kabardcomp
03 117 Mnogoglazka by Kakos_nonos/Kabardcomp

Fast Music
01 146 Moon flight by scalesmann/march[ing] cats feat LHS/DFS
02 117 Psychodelic Apple (improvisation) by Kakos_nonos/Kabardcomp
03 103 overdozing by wbc ^ b-state

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30Jan/15Off

The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels by Chris Wilkins – Review

posted by TecSoft

Imagine Christmas 1983 if you will. An excited young boy has been asking (probably annoying) his parents for the latest Sinclair computer for nigh on a year. Fed up of his ZX81’s wobbly 16K RAM pack, often the undoer of many a programming session, he longs for more. A machine with sound …and colour. Doesn’t sound like much to ask for nowadays, but back in ’83 it was the next big thing to a kid on a council estate...