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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Again a huge gap between posts, but once more here is an update for you on what I have done in that period when I wasn’t writing here. To start at the beginning, I recently retrieved my Commodore 64 from the cold dark and damp garage, before I realised I […]
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