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The ZX Spectrum Next is an 8-bit home computer, initially released in 2017, which is compatible with software and hardware for the 1982 ZX Spectrum. It also has enhanced capabilities. [1] [2] It is intended to appeal to retrocomputing enthusiasts and to "encourage a new generation of bedroom coders", according to project member Jim Bagley. [3]
Elite Systems is a British video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. [1] It is known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games . [ 2 ] Elite also published compilations of games on the Hit-Pak label and budget price re-releases on the Encore label.
Flight Simulation is a flight simulation program written by Psion and marketed by Sinclair Research for the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 home computers. In the United States , Timex Sinclair marketed the ZX81 version as The Flight Simulator for the American version of the ZX81, the Timex Sinclair 1000 . [ 3 ]
Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. Draw is a basic object-based drawing utility. Monte Carlo is a simulation of the repeated rolling of two dice which graphs the expected and observed probability distribution. Character Generator is a utility for editing the ZX Spectrum UDGs (user defined graphics). [6]
Fantasy Software, which started out as Quest Microsoftware, was one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum during the early 1980s. The company was founded in early 1983 by Bob Hamilton and Paul Dyer. [ 1 ]
Later Spectrum models - there were seven in total - failed to capture the public's imagination in the same way. Sir Clive's ill-fated electrically-powered tricycle the Sinclair C5 bombed, costing ...
Vortex Software was a video game developer founded by Costa Panayi and Paul Canter in the early 1980s to sell the game Cosmos which Panayi had developed for the Sinclair ZX81. [1] They converted the game to the ZX Spectrum , but due to the low sales of the ZX81 version they licensed the game to Abbex.
Graphic Adventure Creator (often shortened to GAC) is a game creation system/programming language for adventure games published by Incentive Software, originally written on the Amstrad CPC by Sean Ellis, [1] and then ported to other platforms by, amongst others, Brendan Kelly (Spectrum), [2] Dave Kirby (BBC, Electron) [3] and "The Kid" (Malcolm Hellon) (C64). [4]