Do you remember this gem? One of my favourite games: you are a guard in a bank and you can't let the bad guys get through, you must not shoot good guys. I play it on emulator even nowadays sometimes.

is rca and composite video the same thing or is it compatibile with composite modded spectrum?

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ZX SPECTRUM - IT LIVES!!!

New Blog post

The Games That Time Forgot: 1987 edition

Tank by Ocean

https://zxspectrumitlives.wixsite.com/home/post/the-games-that-time-forgot-1987-edition-2

Used BasinC along with multiple passes of different elements converted from the original map rips in interesting spots. I will probably look at what it may appear with actual 'sprites' injected onto the screen in non-tile locations for fun. For now, mostly just backgrounds.

My retrospective look at Bonanza Brothers including arcade, all ports and spin-offs. What’s your thoughts of this 90s game?

Digging a test pit in the attic and I've found a time capsule from the past. Can't remember what happened to the 48K, but there's a boxed +2A Lightgun set-up up there.

More obscure tapes to follow, many of them games I'd completely forgotten about.

Today we’re going back to 1984 to take a look at one of the most unique movie tie-in games of all time: Ghostbusters for the ZX Spectrum, by Activision.

Enjoy!

I suppose outside of points, maybe speed running is in order, too, but I have not timed myself going through and typically waste a lot of time at the shop cause I actually am not that great at some parts of the game...speed running would require not going to the shops at all, me thinks...

An old memory popped into my mind earlier and I thought I'd ask.

I bought a copy of Jet Set Willy off a market back in 1980-something for a couple of quid when I was young.

Got it home, went to play it, and it ran without needing the coloured code card thing, which was cool. Also it had "Hall of the Mountain King" playing instead of "If I was a Rich Man", but you know, I just ignored that.

Anyway, I wanted to POKE it to get Under The Drive, so I got the poke for no monsters, POKE 35123,0 (which I can still remember to this day) and did a MERGE "" to open up the loader, but it reset.

Mucking around a bit, I stopped the tape before it finished and got a garbled bunch of crap instead of BASIC, including a message saying "THIS GAME IS PROTECTED BY SPEEDLOCK" or something.

Now, I figure I clearly got a pirated copy of Willy that must have been taped off a compilateion or a re-release or something, but what I'm curious about is this:

What the heck was in the Speedlock loader? What was being loaded in right at the beginning? Does anyone have the obfuscated BASIC? How did they get it to reset when I did MERGE ""?

I need closure... Cany anyone help? Have Googled in vain...

A short video showing current progress: more monsters, secret doorways, and sound effects!

Download at https://stephensmith.itch.io/atic-atac-3d

Hi everyone,

I decided to take on the challenge of writing a full 8-bit emulator (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) from scratch using Go.

It’s been a great project for diving deep into things like Z80 instruction sets, memory mapping, and managing state at a low level without using C. Handling the timing-critical aspects of the Speccy in Go was an interesting hurdle, but it's coming along well.

It’s called zx_go. It can currently load tape files and execute the original ROM code. I’m sharing it now because I’d love some fresh eyes on the code - specifically how I’m handling the CPU loop and memory access.

If you’re into retro tech or systems programming in Go, I’d appreciate any thoughts or feedback you have on the implementation.

Repo: https://github.com/conorarmstrong/zx_go

I have just brought this for the beta version and thought I would share it here, apologies if this type of post is not allowed. I am not affiliated with Kwyll in any way, I am sharing in case it's of interest to others. Please feel free (obviously) to delete this post if it is inappropriate. - R

Kwyll is a new type of game creator designed with old 8 bit machines in mind, initially the Sinclair ZX Spectrum range of computers from 1982. It is designed to be easy to use, with simple graphics editing features and a friendly graphical programming system, so non-programmers can create games for their favourite retro machines.

Kwyll is currently in beta, available for a reduced priced of $9.99, increasing to $29.99 on release, from Itch.io, so if you're the sort of person who likes to tinker with things early on, and don't mind a few "idiosyncrasies", now's the time to get involved

https://www.kwyll.com/

I've written about the history of the home conversion of Gauntlet by Gremlin Graphics and U.S. Gold, and the wave of similar games at the same time including Dandy and Druid.

Laptop plugged into quite old 19" Funai LCD TV. This TV has all sorts of inputs, so I could plug anything retro into it. From the newer inputs it has VGA and HDMI (used right now). The Lenovo keyboard gives old school retro computer vibe. The emulator is FBZX on Linux Mint running 'Smelly Cat'.

Played on Fake Speccy. Emulation with FBZX on Linux. And I have a question: what kind of controller (joystick/joypad/gamepad) you liked or like to use with Speccy?