PRESS RELEASE – 23rd December, 2013 – Lichfield, England Kickstarter® Appeal for the Bluetooth® ZX Spectrum® – Hits 10% of Goal in 12 Hours Elite’s MD, Steve Wilcox exclaimed, “”Hitting 10% of our project goal in a little over 12 hours is fabulous start to the Kickstarter appeal for theContinue Reading
£119.57 to be precise. As I have previously highlighted on the site, Macmillan educational titles are going for some very high prices at auction and here is another example. Oil Strike has come up before and fetched a similar price last time round but it still amazes me how farContinue Reading
As I reported back in February 2011, UK based Elite Systems were planning on releasing a recreated ZX Spectrum for use with their mobile gaming apps. Well folks, the good news is that Elite are still planning on doing just that. Now, don’t get too excited Speccy fans; this isContinue Reading
What is the Rotronics Wafadrive? The Wafadrive was a two-drive system for small cartridges containing 1.8mm wide continuous spool tape. In direct competition with the Sinclair ZX Microdrive, this system had a number of unique selling points. The first of which was its price. Originally priced at £129.95 it wasContinue Reading
It’s 1982. The ZX81 is a huge success and the ZX Spectrum is about to be. Britain is producing more home micros than Japan. Kickstarted into action by this success, men armed with soldering irons take to their sheds to build peripherals for their Sinclair machines. Sound a little bitContinue Reading
ZX82? No, it’s called ZX Spectrum Released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. and following on from the huge success of his previous home micros the ZX80 and ZX81 was Sir Clive Sinclair’s first colour computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (code-named ZX82 during development). Gone was the black and white,Continue Reading
Another rare (and these really are) ZX Spectrum title has just been sold on eBay for a whopping £448.23. 27 bidders showed an interest in ‘MacMan and the Caber Eater’ (even though there was a misspelling!) a hard to come by educational game by Sinclair/Macmillan. In previous posts I haveContinue Reading
Those of us lucky to have a ZX Spectrum back in 1984 were treated to probably one of the most original and frankly strange games of all time (Number 1 in the Top 7 Maddest British old-school games at gamesradar.com) – the award winning Deus Ex Machina designed and createdContinue Reading
Not content with giving us the amazing ZX Spectrum title Terry the Turtle, Purple Unicorn Software have released screenshots to RGC of their forthcoming Terry the Turtle – Vektor. From what we can see it looks stunning and the new title will be based on the Yellow and Cyan versionsContinue Reading
Background Purple Unicorn Software is a small software developer run by Steve ‘JammaJup’ Dixon, coinop enthusiast and also the man behind the excellent www.jammajup.co.uk. Another wildlife themed game ensues, following on from his fantastic Pip The Pipistrelle (see the review here), this time Steve has opted to get down toContinue Reading