Spectrum Games - ZX Spectrum Next - ZX Spectrum Games

Hi Folks.

It's been a long time since I've been active on here, I've had too much reality cutting into my 8-Bits of free daily time!

I'm working my way back into both Spectrum and Amiga gaming, two player Exploding Fist has proven to be a lot of fun lately!

Anyway, I'm rather excited about this upcoming piece of kit. The ZX Spectrum Next looks like it's going to be the real deal. A modern day ZX Spectrum that will capture the essence of the original 1982 machine for the current era.

When you look at the people involved (Rick Dickinson, Victor Trucco, Jim Bagley, Henrique Olifiers and Fabio Belavenuto) you cannot help but become excited.

The ZX Spectrum Next

You can read more about the latest developments at ZX Spectrum Next.

The ZX Spectrum Next:

I already know that I have to have one.
:-)

ZX Spectrum Games - ZX Spectrum Programming Masterclass - Part 2

ZX Spectrum Programming Masterclass Part 2
Just like part 1 this clip was uploaded to YouTube by Jesus Zafra.

If the Speccy says I'm cool then it must be true!

The video itself was first released back in 1984 to accompany the book of the same name which was published by WH Smith.

This video deals with data management, simple animation, arrays and string manipulation, which handily leads into an example of a simple hangman game.

This is all great stuff and contains the fundamentals of any type of programming.

Take it away once again David...



ZX Spectrum Games, Arcade Games and Classic Games

ZX Spectrum Games - ZX Spectrum Programming Master Class Part1

ZX Spectrum Programming Master Class Part 1
This clip was uploaded to YouTube by Jesus Zafra. Well done that man!

We are PEEKING and POKING!

The video itself was first released way back in 1984 (on VHS format as I'm sure most of you will remember) just as the ZX Spectrum was becoming more popular me on a night out ;-).

Here David Redclift explains various functions in BASIC, the layout of the good old Speccy keyboard, keyboard commands and how to access the various functions using the shift-keys.

This was heavy duty programming to all of us amateur enthusiasts back in the day, and some of us (not me!) would go on to learn Z80 assembler to produce 'arcade' quality games!

Turbo Rubber Duck Shootout

There is a good hours worth of instruction here. It's retro. It's fun (in a geeky kinda way) and it's well worth a watch.

In fact, you may end up quite proficient in the language of Speccy BASIC after watching this. So good in fact, that your next program will probably so polished it wouldn't even have made it onto a Cascade Cassette 50 compilation. Get yer Speccy out, get typing, and get creating.

Look out for Part 2 shortly!

Take it away David...


Classic Games, Arcade Games and ZX Spectrum Games

Load ""

Load ""
We all remember typing in Load "". Some of us will even remember Load "" Code.

Many an evening spent tweaking your volume control, sliding your tone control another two millimetres, trying again to get your newest purchase to load.

Scrap of paper, volume, tone and title noted. Your personal loading database.

Well, Mr Zogue let me know of this musical composition that incorporates the famous ZX Spectrum loading sounds.



Give it a listen and mess with your audio settings until you get it just right...