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80s Arcade Challenge Nova 2001

dougytJune 10, 2023June 10, 2023
Personal

Nova 2001 is a classic arcade game that was released in 1983 by UPL. The game is a 2D shoot ’em up set in space where the player controls a spaceship that needs to destroy all enemies on the screen to move on to a new level 12. In Nova 2001, players can steer their […]

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Tribble Trubble on the ZX Spectrum

How To Score Zero In Tribble Trubble

dougytSeptember 14, 2019September 14, 2019
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Another week, another Retro Games Forever Zx Spectrum Challenge, This week it’s Tribble Trubble. You will be able to tell from the video below that I managed to score zero in this strange little game. Tribble Trubble, quite a smart looking little game, with some pretty good music on the […]

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Retro Games Forever Amiga Challenge – James Pond 2 Codename Robocod

dougytSeptember 8, 2019September 8, 2019
Personal

I don’t know what it is about the James Pond games but I have always had a dislike for them. The platform levels aren’t particularly bad, the graphics are pretty good, and the sound and music are OK. I have just never enjoyed the games.

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Retro Games Forever ZX Spectrum Challenge Mega Phoenix

dougytSeptember 7, 2019September 7, 2019
Computing And Retro Gaming / Personal

I have spent a lot of my time over the last year competing (badly) in challenges in retro gaming facebook groups, such as RetroTech100 and Retro Games Forever, this weeks RGF challenge on the ZX Spectrum was Mega Phoenix. As Phoenix is among my favourite shootem up games on almost […]

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New Retro Style Game XyXeXXian Attack quick review

dougytApril 8, 2017
Personal

I was just given the heads up on a newly released game from Sunteam called XyXeXXian Attack for Windows PC’s. It is a retro styled shootemup with Sinclair Spectrum style graphics. Gameplay has you defending a ship from the attacking swarm of baddies using your gun as a shield and […]

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Kodi, RetroPie and Opinion

dougytFebruary 26, 2017
Computing And Retro Gaming / Personal

During my Hiatus from this blog I wasn’t just sitting around doing nothing, mostly I was but not only sitting around doing nothing. In fact I was sitting around tinkering with stuff like Raspberry Pi and the fantastic Retropie emulation system along with learning a little more about Kodi, the […]

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Acorn Electron Quick Plays

dougytSeptember 13, 2015
Personal

Playing with the Acorn Electron, underrated 8 bit computer from the 80s

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Small Acorn Electron Upgrade Mod

dougytJuly 22, 2015July 22, 2015
Personal

After a quick mess around with the Electron I noticed what looked like composite out for a video output, but when it was plugged in to my tv only output black and white. At the same time on Mark Fixes Stuff Facebook group there was a post by someone else […]

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New diagnostic rom for the Retroleum fixes Spectrum

dougytMay 30, 2015May 30, 2015
Personal

After the Retroleum test rom diagnosed the newly fitted ic15 as still the fault on the Spectrum practice board, I took it back to the Spectrum4Ever Facebook group and Mark Fixes stuff. Brendan Alford offered up his test rom available at https://github.com/brendanalford/zx-diagnostics to try in the Retroleum which looked like […]

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Watch “Retroleum Spectrum interface in diagnostic mode” on YouTube

dougytMay 30, 2015
Personal

Retroleum Spectrum interface in diagnostic mode: https://youtu.be/UVoQ1t9Tu7I

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