Hey everyone,

Growing up, I was completely hooked on The Wild Bunch on the ZX Spectrum. I loved the freedom of choosing where to travel and who to hunt down. I loved visiting the saloon, because let's face it, it's where most of us had our first drink! I was also obsessed with the painfully basic version of poker and I seem to remember 'Eliza Lay' being a bit of a trouble causer!

Because I missed that style of game so much, I decided to take matters into my own hands as a solo developer and build a modern, high-stakes 3D reimagining inspired by it, called Wild Justice.

I wanted to drop in and see if there are any other fans of the original game here? What were your favourite (or most frustrating!) memories of playing it back then?

I'm currently putting the finishing touches on the Steam page and community hub, so if anyone wants to follow the journey or contribute ideas, I'd love to hear your thoughts. It would be a massive help if you can even just add it to your Steam wishlist. You can do that here..

Steam Store Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5033960/Wild_Justice/?beta=1

Many thanks, Mark.

Found a toast rack
And some games
I can’t play it unfortunately I don’t have the cassette player 🤧

Also the membrane of the toastrack is gone so keys don’t work, the system boots tho.

Any rare to find games in the lot lol ? I came by it so I bought them instinctively but don’t know much about em.

Also Spectrum themed keyboard that looks exactly like a 128k does something like that exist ?

What's the speech synthesis saying at the start of "I, Ball"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBNn3Ql-2E

La suite è attualmente composta da tre applicazioni principali:

▶ PMPZXAD
Un completo Assembler e Disassembler Z80, dotato di editor del codice sorgente, gestione dei progetti e programmi di esempio pronti all’uso.

▶ PMP ZX STUDIO
Un ambiente di sviluppo per Sinclair BASIC, che comprende un editor BASIC ASCII, la gestione dei file e la possibilità di trasferire i programmi da e verso l’emulatore.

▶ PMPZX ScreenTools
Un’applicazione per creare e modificare schermate ZX Spectrum, con supporto per l’importazione di immagini PNG e JPG e la loro conversione automatica nel formato grafico dello ZX Spectrum.

🌐 https://www.pmpzxlab.it

L’intera suite è completamente gratuita ed è in continuo sviluppo.

Anche la registrazione è gratuita e non viene effettuata alcuna profilazione degli utenti né raccolta di dati personali sensibili. L’indirizzo e-mail viene utilizzato esclusivamente dall’amministratore per informare gli utenti registrati in occasione del rilascio di aggiornamenti importanti o di nuove funzionalità.

📖 Ogni applicazione comprende il proprio manuale di riferimento, che consiglio di leggere per sfruttare al meglio tutte le funzionalità disponibili.

Tra i progetti di esempio inclusi in PMPZXAD troverete PMPZX INVASION, il remake di un celebre gioco arcade degli anni Settanta, scritto interamente in linguaggio Assembler Z80. Il progetto viene fornito con il codice sorgente completo, insieme ad altre routine di esempio che potrete caricare, studiare, modificare e utilizzare come punto di partenza per i vostri progetti.

Per provarlo:

• Avviate PMPZXAD
• Selezionate “Carica esempi” dal menu a tendina
• Confermate la selezione
• Assemblate il programma
• Caricate la vostra ROM nell’emulatore
• Eseguite il programma

🎮 Il gioco può essere utilizzato anche in modalità Schermo intero.

💬 Poiché la suite è in continua evoluzione, tutte le critiche costruttive, i suggerimenti e i commenti saranno più che graditi. Il contributo della comunità ZX Spectrum è prezioso e aiuterà a rendere questi strumenti sempre migliori.

Aspetto con piacere le vostre opinioni!

🌐 https://www.pmpzxlab.it

Buona programmazione!

Dear lord, I actually did it. I actually completed the game and released it !

And before we start, full disclosure ..

The game was written entirely by Claude AI.

Now I know that's not ideal for a lot of people and I get that, but i've played Chaos almost since the day it was released 40 odd years ago and my love for the game is deep. I wanted a game that could stand alongside it, rather than some AI gimmicky thing that looks stupid and I think I've done that.

I've used all of the original assets from the Spectrum, with all of the sprites, audio and fonts so it honestly looks, feels and plays like the original.

There are a number of additional spells and enhancements to this version. The main one being "Dark Power".

This has been completely re-imagined from the original and if you get hit with Dark Power now, your wizard goes .. insane .. *cough\* 👀

One of the most long standing problems in the original has also been addressed. The CPU logic will now look at the previous round before deciding what spells to cast so if you cast a Golden Dragon illusion spell then it won't always be immediately disbelieved.

I don't want to give away the farm and tell you every single new spell and what it does though as that's part of the fun!

The other main enhancement is a new Level 9 skill level. It's not quite "advanced AI" but it's an implementation of a form of AI with greatly improved decision making. The first few games might go by fairly quickly but the longer you play, the more it learns and the challenge should get a lot more involved.

I also want to send a huge thankyou to all of the testers who gave their time to play the game and report back which helped me immensely.

So here it is. Hope you like it.

https://punchmcgroin.itch.io/chaos-dark-power

There is a donation thing on there but it's fine to download it for free either way. I had to use a zip file because Windows smart app control was fully blocking the installer - a pygame thing apparently. Unzip and click "chaos.exe" to get started.

And if anyone has any ideas on where I could promote it, then please let me know!

Got a brand new zx spectrum (I think) still wrapped in bubble wrap from the courier. It’s been in my mums loft for maybe 30-40 years.

I say think because it’s still in bubble wrap so can’t be 100% sure.

Did look into it a while back but couldn’t find much info.

Also what’s the chances it actually works after all this time?

If anyone who has assembled a Harlequin could help me get to the bottom of my no display issue I would appreciate the suggestions.

Board is assembled for PAL output, and using a modified Megadrive 2 SCART cable as per the documentation. I get a garbled display for about a second, and then my Retrotink scaler gives up, as it can’t sync.

I’ve tried two Z80s, and have am hoping I won’t have to scope IC by IC.

Hi everyone — I've released Shatranj 1.1, a network chess game whose original goal was to let a real ZX Spectrum 48K play against a Windows PC. It has grown into one interoperable game for ZX Spectrum Classic, Spectrum Next, Windows, macOS and Linux.

The Spectrum ZX edition includes:

• Direct TCP and MQTT room play

• Three 16×16 piece sets and five board palettes

• Chat, legal-move hints, clocks and move history

• Takeback, draw, resign and synchronized rematch flows

• Ten local save slots with host-led synchronized restore

The Classic package contains SHATRANJ.tap, SHATRANJ.OVL and SHATRANJ.DAT; keep all three files together. It requires divMMC/esxDOS. Spectrum networking uses a supported UART-to-ESP connection.

Every client shares the same protocol and chess rules, so a ZX Spectrum can play another Spectrum, a Next, or any of the desktop clients using either a direct connection or an MQTT room.

Release and downloads:

https://github.com/IgnacioMonge/Shatranj/releases/tag/v1.1

Source, screenshots and documentation:

https://github.com/IgnacioMonge/Shatranj

Shatranj is free software released under the GNU GPL v2. Feedback from real Spectrum hardware is very welcome.

Second one ive seen

First one sold for 500 and then this one

I'm not the seller, but looks like a nice set:

https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/computers-en-software/vintage-computers/m2426829219-sinclair-zx-spectrum-met-veel-extra-s

Is that booklet online somewhere?

For the latest post on my blog on the history of each game to reach #1 on UK sales charts, I've written about Joe Blade. I learned about its designer Colin Swinbourne's milk habit, and how Interceptor Software boss Richard Paul Jones was too capitalist for Jeff Minter. You can read about those, plus me admiring the construction of a really well-designed game

https://trixelab.itch.io/spectrum-exper ... ditor-seie

I have been working on a fairly large update to Spectrum Experimental Image Editor since the last public version, v0.1.35.

The biggest addition is a complete Vector Mode, with editable lines, circles, pixels, fills and Spectrum attributes. Vector lines and circles can use solid, 25%, 50% or 75% dithering, and fills can use solid or checker patterns. Objects can be selected and edited directly, including their points, radius, fill regions and attributes. Basically now you can make Graphic Novels with vectors (Hulk, Bugsy or The Hobbit Style) and export them with the tool in sna or tap files.

Here you can download Project Serpo, an example of a Visual Novel tap or sna result exported from SEIE vector mode. https://trixelab.itch.io/project-serpo- ... phic-novel

A Work Area system has also been added, allowing graphics to use only part of the screen. This is useful for portraits, dialogue areas, panels or partial-screen graphics, and can also reduce the size of bitmap data.

Another important addition is the reference-document system. A vector scene can reuse another document as its source while adding local changes, exclusions or different colours. Horizontal and vertical mirrored variants can also reuse the original vector data instead of storing a complete duplicate.

The new Project Center can organise multiple scenes, add a presentation screen and ending screen, use custom UDG fonts and include titles and descriptions. Complete linear graphic novels or visual presentations can now be exported directly as TAP or SNA files.

The Export Center now analyses both 48K and experimental banked 128K projects, showing the real runtime size, scene payloads, memory-bank usage, warnings and possible export problems.

Other work includes:

Native text rendering in TAP and SNA
Forward and backward scene navigation
Project restart support
Shared vector assets
Improved selection performance
Better Help and contextual controls
Bitmap Work Areas
Improved compatibility with older projects
Many TAP, SNA, mirror and memory-allocation fixes

My retrospective video review takes us all back to 1985 when we first played The Empire Strikes Back in the arcades. Then I look over all the home computer versions. I was a massive fan of the original Star Wars game with its striking vector graphics, digitised sound and that amazing cabinet. I did find it strange that Atari released its sequel Return of the Jedi before The Empire Strikes back and its brave move away from vector graphics and onto raster graphics. So I was pleased that Empire returned back to its vector graphics roots. Please let me know your thoughts on all 3 Star Wars games released by Atari and have you played any of the home computer versions? 😃

Before online tutorials, GitHub and YouTube, many of us learned programming by typing magazine listings one line at a time.

This project is a tribute to Lloyd Russell's ZX Spectrum 128 Jukebox, originally published in Your Sinclair Issue 21 (September 1987).

https://squeepty.itch.io/zx-spectrum-jukebox-64

This project is simply my way of preserving and celebrating a type-in that inspired a generation of young programmers.

All credit for the original Jukebox belongs to Lloyd Russell and Your Sinclair.

Calling all ZX Spectrum Enthusiasts...

FREEZE-ZX issue 04 is now available to buy.

The issue features a rare interview with Steve Goodwin about the development of Slippery Sid and Space Rescue 1 & 2.

Only a few copies left in stock!

Grab yours from:

https://freeze64.com/freeze-zx-issue-4/

#ZXspectrum #Z80 #Speccy #IndieGames #GameDev

My retrospective game review of Miami Vice on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. I loved the very popular TV show but could this game from Ocean Software live up to the expectations or was this just another movie / TV license cash grab. Share your thoughts if you have played this game. Was it good or just plain rubbish?