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16Jun/14Off

Pyskool 1.1.2

posted by TecSoft

Pyskool is a remake of Microsphere's Skool games written in Python and Pygame. It's designed to be very customisable and tweakable: even the behaviour of the characters is determined by lines in plain text configuration files.

The main changes since 1.1.1 are new theme tunes, new 'all shields' tunes, new 'open safe' tunes, new 'up a year' tunes and new lesson questions and answers for Skool Daze Take Too, Ezad Looks, and Back to Skool Daze. The new tunes (actually nursery rhymes and other traditional songs) are done in the style of the original Skool game tunes (i.e. rasping notes produced by code running in contended memory). Hopefully you'll be able to recognise some of them!

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9Jun/14Off

Retro Asylum: The Trap Door

posted by TecSoft

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9Jun/14Off

RZX Archive: Super Mario Bros. (Playable Demo) Walkthrough

posted by TecSoft

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9Jun/14Off

TSS 16K — Firebirds

posted by TecSoft

A very early Phoenix variant from Softek — but is it any good?

Tagged as: games, podcast, video 1 Comment

6Jun/14Off

RZX Archive: JINJ 2 — Belmonte’s Revenge Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

posted by TecSoft

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2Jun/14Off

ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 01 June 2014

posted by TecSoft

The Tipshop site was updated again. Full list of changes you can read at the World Of Spectrum.

The Tipshop aims to be the site for hints, tips, maps, cheats, hacks, pokes - anything that will help you play Spectrum and SAM games.

Database size: 18350 entries for 4887 games.

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29May/14Off

The Mojon Twins: Ninjajar, Secret #1 — Buchu

posted by TecSoft

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29May/14Off

Retro Asylum: Pac Land ZX Spectrum (Colour Version)

posted by TecSoft

In today's video we take a look at the reworking/reolouring of Pac land on the ZX Spectrum.

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29May/14Off

Edge: The Making Of — Lords Of Midnight

posted by TecSoft

An old but sill interesting article.

"Lords Of Midnight was truly a thing of beauty. Its icy wastes, craggy citadels and distinctive deep blue sky brought a dimension of style to the ZX Spectrum of 1984 which served to dignify, rather than trivialise, videogames. And, like all the games which alter the way we think about electronic entertainment, it wouldn’t fit neatly into any given category. Strategy, RPG, text adventure – it was all of these and something quintessentially more. An independent universe which would leave a residual trace in the memory of all those who traversed its furthest reaches."

Read the full article.

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29May/14Off

Retrospect: Daily Retrospektive – 26/05/2014

posted by TecSoft

Retrospect reviewed Mojon Twins release — new ZX Spectrum game ‘Ninjajar’ paying tribute to Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

Read the article.

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28May/14Off

RZX Archive: Ninjajar! Walkthrough

posted by TecSoft

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28May/14Off

“Ninjajar!” Music Online

posted by TecSoft

ZX Spectrum soundtrack for a new game by the The Mojon Twins called "Ninjajar"!.

Made with WYZTracker by @augusto-ruiz-garc-a.

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26May/14Off

TSS 16K — Quackers

posted by TecSoft

The Spectrum Show - 16K Edition. Quackers by Rabbit software from 1983. The cover gives the game away, its a Carnival clone - but is it any good?

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23May/14Off

Picture of the Day: The Great Escape Map

posted by TecSoft

The Great Escape at the World of Spectrum.

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21May/14Off

Brand New Game: Ninjajar! by The Mojon Twins

posted by TecSoft

Help Ninjajar finding his girl in this video-adventure-arcade-platformer-whatever. You can jump, punch, jump and punch, break blocks, talk to people, talk to animals, buy things, get coins, solve puzzles, push levers… There’s lots to do if you want to see your girl again. Just write down the password the game shows before entering each level. If you die or you perform badly, you can try again using the latest password.