Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2016

ZX Spectrum Games Code Club - Special Spanish Edition is coming!




In 2015 Florinthedwarf did a big review write up of Gary Plowman's fabulous coding book ' ZX Spectrum Games Code club ', which is a top quality guide in programming in BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, just as many people did way back in the 80's and still do today. In actual fact the book included twenty BASIC games for you to type-in and enjoy. After each program, the book explains in great detail,

Friday, November 25, 2016

The Ambivalence Chronicles: a Sci-Fi Comedy in 8 Bits






And now for something completely different: The Chip Whisperer - Bit#1 of The Ambivalence Chronicles - is a science fiction comedy story by IRN's occasional Sinclair reviewer, Steve Trower, released as a kindle ebook. The Ambivalence Chronicles: a Sci-Fi Comedy in 8 Bits, is the retrogaming inspired, time-travelling, dimension-jumping tale of an ordinary retro collector who sets out to buy a

Sunday, May 15, 2016

The Atari ST and the Creative People: Anthology - An awesome Atari ST Kickstarter Campaign




While the crowdfunding platforms are being flooded with projects for retrocomputing greats such as the C64, Spectrum and Amiga, the scene has been a little light on products for the Humble Atari ST. Seemingly unloved by people targeting the frothing hoards of Amiga fans the ST has been getting a short shrift of memorabilia to drop your wad on. Well Marco A. Breddin wants to change that with

Friday, May 13, 2016

The Mastertronic Archives - The history of Mastertronic budget games gets a classy Kickstarter!




When I was just a wee lad, I used to go into town and into a shop called Forbouys, it was packed to the brim with newsagent items, but more especially gaming magazines and classic 8-bit tapes. You know the ones, the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum, all stacked neatly against each other on the shelf, priced between £1.99 and £4.99. It was such a fantastic time for a kid of that era, and it is the 

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Nintendo 64 Anthology - The Ultimate Book Kickstarter is now live!




Way back in the late 90's Nintendo released the third game console for the international market, it was also the last major console to use the cartridge based system, which was pretty much killed off by the CD. The console was of course the Nintendo 64, or as many people know it, the N64. Although I have never used one or played the games that came with the N64, I was very pleased to get a