My copy of James Sinclair and the temple of the Sun God for the #ZXSpectrumNext arrived in the post today. Really nice presentation, and interesting interface with keyboard control. Looking forward to properly exploring the game.

NextDAAD v0.12.1 for the #ZXSpectrumNext adds positional additive layer 2 graphics, multi-game kit support, and a #CSpect debugger plugin that can step one condact at a time, stop when a flag changes or an object moves, edit flags & objects, and shows the lines of your .DSF as you step through them.

NextDAAD - ZX Spectrum Next text adventure creation system

Create your own text adventures for the ZX Spectrum Next with NextDAAD.

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New computers are great, but none carry the gravitas of a fully loaded BBC Master Domesday Machine.

New Aseprite extension published on itch, a #ZXSpectrumNext colour picker panel that holds only the Next's limited 8 & 9 bit palettes. Plus snap toggle for the built in hue picker/eyedropper that automatically moves to the nearest Next colour. #indiedev #gamedev #aseprite

Aseprite ZX Spectum Next Colours by Absent42

Aseprite colour picker and snapper for ZX Spectrum Next palette

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My Patreons now have an article on my Bootrom work, and how I'm using AI to push it forward. Exciting times! www.patreon.com/mikedailly/p...

Bootrom with a little AI sparkle | Mike Dailly

Bootrom with a little AI sparkle by Mike Dailly on Patreon. Join Mike Dailly's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Looking forward to playing James Sinclair and the Temple of the Sun God on the #ZXSpectrumNext, a small number of physical copies are now available to order. The collectors edition contains feelies such as field notes and character cards.

control panel of the day #HCI

*I'm intrigued by aspects of model-generation images that aren't "sloppy" or "glitchy" or monstrous or surreal *Instead they have this hard-to-describe "stochastic in-between-ness" *It's like the model's "door-of-perception" has yawned open and you glimpse a radically different world backstage

A rather nifty tool for editing per-level background copper gradients for the #ZXSpectrumNext port of Door Door.

You're a ZX Spectrum fanatic crazy about Target Renegade, right? What if you could easily edit the game using a simple web browser? Well, look at this... reheatedpixels.com/editors/targ...

Was the VICmodem the first modem to sell a million units? I dug into it. In this blog post, I estimate how many units actually sold and I share my methodology. And this one's personal, it was my first modem. dfarq.homeip.net/how-many-vic... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

How many VICmodems Commodore sold

I've heard assertions this was the first million-selling modem. Let's test that theory using the German Tank problem.

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If the purpose of open-source, free software, whatever, is not to enable remixing and kitbashing and weird new uses nobody thought of, and put control over software into the people's hands, then it's not worth a rusty curry fart. Sorry, not sorry.

USB 50 Games already submitted can now be viewed 11 submissions needed to complete, deadline 1st December 2026. see you at CRASH LIVE 👍 usb50-zx-spectrum.itch.io

USB-50-ZX-SPECTRUM

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If you don’t already own Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story on Switch, you now have no excuse because it’s 75% off (!) until the 26th. www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/... I mean, that’d be cheap for Tempest 2000 alone. But also: Llamatron, versus Gridrunners, Ancipital, etc…

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, maker of some of the weirdest games of all time.

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My day involves a stack of Atari computers, a laser disc player, digitizer, CRT, former Atari employee, and an ultra rare Atari cosmos How’s your day going? 

40 years of Sinclair Secrets have been discovered! Full technical details of many of the custom Ferranti ULAs used by Sinclair have been found and shared! Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW3...

The Ferranti Files: 40 Years of Sinclair Secrets Unearthed

YouTube video by Happy Little Diodes

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Door Door port to #ZXSpectrumNext now has per-pixel movement & sprite masking instead of the PC-88 4-pixel grid system, music is now native AY using up to 6 channels instead of an FM-AY HAL, it's also gained a 2 player mode and a cheat menu. #RetroGaming

#ZXSpectrumNext conversion of first ever laserdisc video game, Adventures in Videoland. A bomber has planted a radio-controlled device on the roller coaster of an amusement park, race against the clock to disarm it. This conversion replaces the laserdisc with streamed SD card video. #retrogaming

Adventures in Videoland: Rollercoaster - ZX Spectrum Next

Conversion of the first ever lasterdisc game, Adventures in Videoland (AKA Rollercoaster) for the ZX Spectrum Next

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Open your ear holes for this fantastic track composed for Space Pizza. It suits the game perfectly and I am so happy that the game is going to have an awesome soundtrack. It may will be the best thing about the game!

Hoffman@h0ffman.bsky.social · 3w ago

#MODtober - A song about delivering Pizza in Space. Made for the forthcoming ZX Spectrum Next game, Space Pizza from @AtomicWindmill youtu.be/CL66hwzAyNY

A new stable release of ScummVM is here. 11 new engines and 192 new games added since the last major update, as well as numerous updates, fixes, and new features for existing games: www.scummvm.org/news/20261011/

ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: ScummVM 2026.4.0

It is hard to believe, but a quarter-century and a couple of days ago, the ScummVM Project saw its first public commit by Ludvig Strigeus aka ludde. So many things have changed, and we continue to fol...

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1980s licenses that would have made good text adventures: Prisoner: Cell Block H As a new remand inmate at Wentworth you must survive until your court case. Do you form allegiances with the guards or prisoners, and which faction of prisoners? Some may protect you, some may get you into trouble.

31 Days of Scares - Video Game Edition Day 7 Wolfman on the C64 (1988) The last in the Rod Pike series of horror themed text adventures sees you playing a man cursed to become a werewolf. Now you must avoid killing your fiancée, whilst being hunted by villagers and finding a cure.

Ports of Colossal Cave Adventure to various classic and modern Pascal compilers including Free Pascal and my own PASTA/80, all based on an ancient version of Adventure for PDP. github.com/pleumann/adv... #pascal #freepascal #turbopascal #retrocomputing #textadventure #cpm #dos #agon #specnext

Space Pizza, An Intergalactic Tale Of Planets And Pepperoni, Is Preparing To Blast Off On ZX Spectrum Next

Space Pizza, An Intergalactic Tale Of Planets And Pepperoni, Is Preparing To Blast Off On ZX Spectrum Next

The clock's tickin', dude

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Preview video of Adventures in Videoland (AKA Rollercoaster) #ZXSpectrumNext conversion. This was the first ever laserdisc video game, published in January 1982, for Apple II and Pioneer laserdisc player. Spectrum Next conversion runs NextDAAD, with the laserdisc replaced by SD card streamed video.

Adventures in Videoland: Rollercoaster - ZX Spectrum Next conversion

YouTube video by Dan Gibson

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After conversing with Zigbee2MQTT maintainers I've released a version my Aqara firmware scraper. Queries the servers for an OTA update to a device linked to your Aqara account. A middle ground between their current method and the full tool which could wreak havoc on Aqara servers if widely used.

GitHub - absent42/Aqara-Firmware-Query: Find if there's a firmware update for your Aqara devices.

Find if there's a firmware update for your Aqara devices. - absent42/Aqara-Firmware-Query

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Thrust #C64 is 40 years old. so I released a full disassembly and level editor. Make your own C64 Thrust levels. Outputs a C64 PRG to play anywhere. Enjoy! github.com/hayesmaker/t...

GitHub - hayesmaker/thrust-c64: Full dissassembly of C64 Thrust by Claude Opus 5.5

Full dissassembly of C64 Thrust by Claude Opus 5.5 - hayesmaker/thrust-c64

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Early playable #ZXSpectrumNext build of Door Door mkII from NEC PC-8801. Mechanics, logic & game loop ported from Z80 disassembly, timings adjusted for 50Hz, graphics routines redone for Next's tilemap & sprite layers, FM effects & music converted to AY. After bug fixes, Next enhancements follow.

aaand here comes another new core for the #MiSTerFPGA from apolkosnik (Adam Polkosnik) !!! #ATARI Falcon github.com/apolkosnik/F... .