So yeah, locking in more official #ZXSpectrum ports of SEGA games for tonight's stream - here's what's left!
Join me at 20:30 GMT to see whats what
So yeah, locking in more official #ZXSpectrum ports of SEGA games for tonight's stream - here's what's left!
Join me at 20:30 GMT to see whats what
Si buscas un arcade divertido este Toofy’s Winter Nuts es justo eso.
Toofy necesita recoger suficientes nueces para sobrevivir al invierno, pero las ardillas se las han robado.
Descárgalo para #ZXSpectrum desde https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/28158/ZX-Spectrum/Toofys_Winter_Nuts #retrogaming
40 years ago, C&VG magazine produced a listings issue with a selection of games to type into your computer.
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Dragon32 #BBCMicro #AcornElectron #TexasTI99A
Great new #retrocomputing / #retrogaming channel -- <2K subs. This video is about the #Oric1, a British computer released a little too late to overtake the #ZXSpectrum but became a small hit in France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2q0qMC97Y
This week’s #Gaming pickups:
For #Sinclair #ZXSpectrum:
- Barbarian II (Kixx Re-release)
- Beam Rider
- Bedlam
- The Happiest Days of Your Life
- I, Ball II
- Time Flies
- The Wild Bunch
- Zenji
No #Film or #TV pickups this week.
#Retrogaming
Top-down autosotaa dystooppisessa tulevaisuudessa maailmanlopun jälkeisissä maisemissa? #Battlecars / #ZXSpectrum
#videopelit #videogames @pelikopteri #pelikopteri #Pelivatkain #retropelit #retropelaaminen #retrogames #retrogaming @v2fi
Hey #ZXSpectrum peeps, does anyone have a V2.0 PCB Multiface One with later '90' ROM? I have one with the earlier 'FE' ROM & it's missing some features. I've been trying to track this down for ages and it's not in the archives I've checked. Thanks!
The Empire Strikes Back (128k in-game) by David Whittaker
./e/Empire_Strikes_Back_The.ay?#0
Title: The Empire Strikes Back (128k in-game)
Author: David Whittaker
#ZXSpectrum
#chiptune
Quazatron - Title (Beeper) by Steve Turner
./q/Quazatron.ay?#0
Title: Quazatron - Title (Beeper)
Author: Steve Turner
#ZXSpectrum
#chiptune
ZX Spectrum, Soviet Style: A 44-IC Clone You Can Build - If you’ve ever fancied building a ZX Spectrum clone without hunting down ancient U... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/zx-spectrum-soviet-style-a-44-ic-clone-you-can-build/ #retrocomputing #computerhacks #classichacks #leningrad-1 #zxspectrum #pcbhacks #keyboard #spectrum #replica #soviet #zonov #news #pcb #ic
A theme for the stream has been chosen! I've been poking around the ZXDB and come up with a list of official #ZXSpectrum Sega conversions.
Far too many for the Dandanator so we'll stick with the ZX Omni and it's divmmc tonight!
Sinclair Microvision
Someone is selling it here:
https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/audio-tv-en-foto/vintage-televisies/m2243262748-sinclair-microvision-portable-crt-tv-vintage-100-werkend
BREAKING: A new Kickstarter for the Spectrum Next soon:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2/posts/4330921
"Los Amores de Brunilda" (2013) is an RPG originally for the Spectrum 128K.
I've been playing it for the last couple of weeks here and there, and just completed it yesterday. It's not a difficult game, and it's fun.
It's set in Galicia (Spain), and it certainly feels galician, with its particular celtic, medieval, and religious combination.
There's also an MSX2 version (playable in the browser), if you'd rather have better graphics:
Just found out about a 2009 TV film on retro computing called "Micro Men". It's a sort of comedy-drama about UK computer manufacturers in the 1980s, done on a tiny budget by mixing in archive footage. It works really well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5L-iTIbP8
There's also a video of some of the real people depicted watching it and commenting on the authenticity:
Oh by the way, all my latest stuff is under the Apache 2.0 licence, which means it is both Free and Open Source Software (according to the most reputable non-beer definitions)
Among them the zxa assembler
https://github.com/ha1tch/zxa
The incipient ual programming language (very much in construction)
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual
zxvdu
A software-based display server for the Zx Spectrum
https://github.com/ha1tch/zxvdu
zxtex
Converts between pngs and bitmap textures for the ZX Spectrum and zxvdu (back and forth)
https://github.com/ha1tch/zxtex
Among other things...
The exception to the rule is uxngo, an implementation of the uxn virtual machine, which is under the MIT licence, mostly for perfect compatibility and reciprocity with the Hundred Rabbits work.
https://github.com/ha1tch/unxgo
Scraping the barrel for ways to visually represent an impending #ZXSpectrum stream, but anyway live in 5!
New #ual programmers can start coding following most ideas they would assume to work using Lua, and progressively adopt the ual-specific stacked mode when it makes sense. For example, in resource-constrained systems where an algorithm using a Forth-like stack can be more efficient for certain tasks.
The > operator indicates a line that operates on the stack system, using a vocabulary for the most part similar to Forth's.
The @stackname > expression allows the programmer to select on which stack the operations are executed. The system comes with a data stack (@dstack) and a return stack (@rstack) built-in, but you can instantiate new ones, since stacks are first class objects in ual.
Take for example this implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, uses its own separate stack to perform its computation.
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/main/examples/dijkstra.ual
Hope you like it!