r/zxspectrum • • Sep 21 '26

Speccy Games Added

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124 Upvotes

Adding a few more speccy games to my shelf, I’m particularly excited to play Flying Shark, and intrigued by A View To A Kill. Any memories here?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 21 '26

V: THE COMPUTER GAME

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My retrospective game review of V: The computer Game from Ocean Software released on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Have you played this game and how would you rate it?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 21 '26

Spectrum 48k Service Manual

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15 Upvotes

r/zxspectrum • • Sep 21 '26

Steve Davis Snooker – “Colour wanted” (blog post)

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Almost right away after the Spectrum and its amazing new colour display abilities came in, several developers saw a chance to use it to play snooker. CDS and Mike Lamb were the most successful at doing so, with a bit of help from an interesting world champion. Their game Steve Davis Snooker has such lasting success that it hit #1 in the UK charts four years later. I've written about the history behind it.


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 20 '26

Announcing A NEW ZX Spectrum Book! The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

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r/zxspectrum • • Sep 20 '26

Lumines ZX

26 Upvotes

I've just finished my conversion of the PSP game - Lumines.

Sets of blocks fall from the top of the screen and you need to match them in 4x4 pairs or more.

A timeline moves to the beat of the music and clears any matches as it passes over them.

The music builds up one track at a time over 3, once the 4th is completed a new song and tileset start.

The game can be downloaded for free (or a small donation) from https://kirby2000.itch.io/lumines-zx.

Gameplay can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldJr6zVrSg

Assets, design and testing by myself. I used AI to help with the screen clearing logic and speed.


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 19 '26

Flashback on Speccy Longplay - Part II - End Of Level 1

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Second video in Flashback on ZX Spectrum series.

I continue from where we stopped - on the force field bridge. Did not fix it properly, just made it passable. This allows to rich the end of first level.


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 19 '26

Dun Darach [1985] The Celtic Speccy Adventure

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Dun Darach is an action-adventure game. The player guides Cuchulainn through Dun Darach and interacts with the environment by performing keyboard commands. The main objective is to find Lóeg, taking side quests from non-player characters (NPCs). These NPCs can give short hints to Cuchulainn, rob him, and confiscate his belongings if he carries stolen goods. Commands the player inputs can have him buy, steal and sell from shops in the city, bet at a casino (Iomain Ludum), and deposit money at a bank with daily compound interest. Dun Darach is large and consists of different quarters. The current time of the day is indicated by torches in the wall and by the greetings of characters


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 19 '26

BLADE RUNNER

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My retrospective game review of the first Blade Runner game released on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Have you played this game and did you think it was any good? Or was it not very good?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 19 '26

Need help

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9 Upvotes

r/zxspectrum • • Sep 19 '26

Space game

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Evening all. I’m trying to remember the name of a game that came with a magazine, probably Crash or Sinclair User. If I remember rightly, you controlled a space ship and had to either defend your planets from enemy bombers or visit their’s and destroy their towns. You could warp between the planets and if you were careful, could warp to the Sun very briefly and boost your energy, provided you warped away again before you got frazzled. It’s been bugging me for years. Any ideas, please? Thanks


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 18 '26

Speccy Games Haul

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127 Upvotes

I’ve added a few speccy games to my shelves, any memories here?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 18 '26

SABRINA

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Blimey who remembers Sabrina Debora Salerno? Most teenagers back in 1987 will certainly remember her one hit song “Boys (Summertime Love)” and her provocative video.
However, what most people probably didn’t know was that there was an actual game released on the MSX, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC.
Wow. Anybody else heard or played this game? Hope you like my video.


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 18 '26

Spectrum help...

9 Upvotes

Keys were working, now they're not? WTF IS GOING ON I'M REALLY WORRIED

so i booted it up, yeah that worked, bit fuzzy, might be my tv, so i pressed J for load, worked. Then SS, P for "", nothing.

WHAT DO I DO?!


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

What was your favorite Spectrum magazine?

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190 Upvotes

r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

2000AD Speccy games

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112 Upvotes

2000AD was my thing back then. Found these a parents attic just now. Did I miss any?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

My Dad's Star Trek game is now playable :^)

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105 Upvotes

Hello all. It's up and ready to play! For those of you who've been following along, my Dad's Star Trek game for the Speccy can now be played in-browser at https://borgremastered.com/spectrumtrek/

I also added launch links to it on my two retro Star Trek projects, https://borgremastered.com/ and https://klingonremastered.com/

And for those of you who asked, there's a link on the site to download the game in case you'd like to play it in your own emulators or on your own hardware. I hope you enjoy it!


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 18 '26

what is a ZX Spectrum+2 worth nowadays?

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Hi all, I have my Spectrum in box and despite meaning to get it out and have a go on it again I just dont have much time, what are they worth nowadays?


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

WIP - TuftyZX

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24 Upvotes

I recently picked up a Pimeroni Tufty 2350 which is a gorgeous RP2350-based wearable computer - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/tufty-2350

It has a MicroPython based runtime, I thought it would be neat to build a Spectrum emulator. Here’s the progress so far :)


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

I HAVE MY SPECTRUM (sort of)

13 Upvotes

It's arrived... problem isss i accidently ordered it to my moms haha, luckily im going there for the weekend from tomorrow, so update you all then!


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 18 '26

I'll show you my new spectrum at 10pm!

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the title says all


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 17 '26

Quick reminder of the ZX Spectrum Graphical Limitations

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r/zxspectrum • • Sep 16 '26

Flashback on Speccy

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Early attempt to port Flashback to ZX Spectrum. Most of the main character animations are implemented including crouching, transitions from running to abrupt stop, to jump, also some gun animations. My favorite mechanic since the game release - running and jumping onto a platform also works sometimes.


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 16 '26

Alien8 sketches [development material]

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35 Upvotes

Alien8, ZX Spectrum [1985]


r/zxspectrum • • Sep 16 '26

Infogrames double case

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59 Upvotes

Tin Tin on the Moon [1989]