Brand New Game: Dave Infuriators by Black Jet
Okay, here's a new platform game from England, which is completely unorthodox to anything you may have played on Spectrum before. It's controlled with only two buttons (spacebar for jumping and M for changing direction), it's full of traps, it's pretty hard to beat the clock or your own record (although that depends on what difficulty you choose).
Download it here.
Brand New Game: Pariboro by Zeroteam
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Somewhat late news coming up! :)
A new game from Zeroteam (Slovakia) was released recently. Its' gameplay resembles Lines: you need to find a requested combination of two blocks on the field so it could be cleared out. Clearing out the entire row on the field will bring you more new blocks.
You can download either the original .tap flie or tiboh's TR-DOS adaptation.
Brand New Game: Carlos Michelis by World XXI Soft
Carlos Michelis, a new game from Argentina, stuffed with action, adrenaline, puzzles and cutscenes, is now finally out for sale, after being presented on Next Castle Party 2012. Among other features, it also includes multiple languages and a fully-working 48K support. If you don't know if the game's still worth buying it, a one-level demo of the game can be downloaded here.
In fact, according to Ariel Ruiz himself, a physical TR-DOS version of Carlos Michelis, complete with instruction booklet, is to be available for sale sooner or later!
Acid Paper #6 – Special Edition Breaking News by goblinish
Acid Paper is back in action. All the truth about some of the habitants of zx-pk.ru and what could have been if a prequel of Alien, Prometheus, would be remade, plus a lot of other interesting stuff.
Marriage in Malinovka – gift for AER by AAA Band, Mick and Team Site
With the best wishes from nix./site, moroz1999, riskej, sq/skrju, mikezt/zeroteam, Mick, VNN/KCS and AAA, we bring this little gift to a just married couple: Eugeny and Kate!
Download it here.
Next Castle Party 2012 Results
ZX Spectrum Next Castle Graphics Compo
- 9) (119) Гонщик by Flyer
- 8) (132) Karaoke Hero by Moran
- 7) (195) Nether Earth by UniSoft
- 6) (198) Cat Woman vs Harley Quinn by ALKO
- 5) (230) Rendez-Vous Next Castle by Moran
- 4) (266) Dendy Battle Coliseum Mockup by brightentayle
- 3) (282) Angry Pigs by Belchonok
- 2) (294) Melonie Wiggletoe by brightentayle
- 1) (301) Hunters by pr0f^4d
ZX Spectrum Next Castle Music Compo
- 8) (116) Callmemaybe Mide by Siril^oisee^4d
- 7) (131) Rasta-Ferma by Moran
- 6) (170) Dizzy in BITWORLD by AER
- 5) (171) Pushing Onwards by Baxter
- 4) (179) Some Words About Chilling Rain by Scalesmann/march cats
- 3) (182) Darkhorace, back in the ussr! by Darkhorace
- 2) (188) AdVenTuRe... by MMCM/SAGE
- 1) (288) One They Fear by nq/skrju
ZX Spectrum Next Castle 512B Game Compo
- late for the compo: Boulder Dash 512b by krt17
- 4) (201) Tiny Memory by Ralf
- 3) (274) Pacman by thesuper and bye, v3nom! by goblinish
- 2) (288) Ultra Bomber by Dmitry Egorov
- 1) (296) Asteroids 512 by SaNchez
some words about chilling rain [ep] by scalesmann
here comes last of the 2012 year music release by scalesmann/march[ing] cats
tracklist:
1. some words about chilling rain - 2:03
2. chiptuner - 2:11
3. when the cow goes mou - 1:25
4. calm down - 1:38
5. interstate'160 - 1:23
6. 106 - 1:57
7. fookin' photographer outtro - 0:54
take it here
Next Castle Party 2012 Voting Begins NOW!
To place your votes, follow this link:
http://ncp.spectrum4ever.org/
Next Castle Party 2012 Voting
Be prepared to vote for ZX Spectrum prods at Next Castle Party 2012, because it will be about two hours before all the games, the pictures and the music will be revealed to the public and available for voting!
Everyone outside the partyplace is given a right to vote, but for no more than two extra hours.
You do the math for your own timezone. Stay tuned for the updates so you would know the location of the votesheet.
Tarjan’s Spectrum Clone Page Updated!
Tarjan's huge page, which is literally stuffed with the descriptions of various Spectrum clones now also includes a somewhat complete description of Pentagon and its' modifications, as well as the originally Czech DivIDE interface.
19 Bytes For Color by Goblinish
And so Goblinish did it again! He crammed a pretty eye-pleasing color effect into a mini-intro and placed third on Demosplash 2012 with less bytes than on his previous work.
New Game by jerri Under Development
jerri is now busy with porting an old Lithuanian game named Run Away (otherwise known as Vitamin). You can look at the work-in-progress snapshot here.
[ZXEvo] Brand New Game: Project Robo by hippiman
It now can be honestly said that while the Russian game development seems to be back on its' feet, the ZX Evolution gamedev has only arose. Here's a fine proof: hippiman has made this quirky blend of a top-down shooter and a rouge-like game on pure C (which couldn't be possible without the SDK developed by Alone Coder and Shiru, though), which also includes eyecandy comparable to what you may see on Sega MegaDrive and really lush music from Sprinter.
Given that this game was made for a really sophisticated Spectrum clone, most of you guys might not own an actual PentEvo, but that's not a big bother, since you can run it on a very special emulator available here (use F3 to load the game, then F12 to reset to TR-DOS and autorun the game). WASD moves the player robot while cursor keys let him shoot in different directions.
RetroMania 2012 Retrogame Programming Contest
They don't care whether you can code for Spectrum or not - if you can create games for the other computers, consoles or even mobile devices, then you're in. RetroMania 2012, which will take place in Zaragoza, Spain, hosts a ZX Spectrum remake contest, the rules to which you can download here, in both Spanish and English.
Brand New Game: Encyclopaedia Galactica
Briefly speaking, Encyclopaedia Galactica, a new game from Johnathan Cauldwell (and many other good people) is available for sale five pounds per each physical copy or two pounds per the .tap image on RetroFusion.
Brand New Crack: Beach Volley by Slider
One more release for today! This particular crack should work fine under both 48K and 128K memory modes.