Rare Replay is released on the XBOX One!
Amongst the 30 games, it contains seven ZX Spectrum titles:
Jetpac
Lunar Jetman
Atic Atac
Sabre Wulf
Underwurlde
Knight Lore
Gunfright
Each is given some serious Rare lurve, each has a rewind feature to go back the last 10 seconds, a retro CRT (if desired!), a save game feature, and each has five brand new mini-games associated with them. These mini-games highlight the main features of the game to show how to play the game, these are amazing fun.
Anyway….
Whilst we were developing the Ultimate Apps last year, I received an email from Rare (I work for MS) asking for some help on the ZX Spectrum side of things, I was fortunate enough to be invited over, not once but twice and they told me their secret. I also got a fantastic tour of Rare and got to see one of Tim Stampers ZX Spectrums which was cool! I then taught a few ‘young’ developers how to reverse engineer Z80 games using IDA Pro and how my emulator worked, whereby I handed over a port of it to get them started. But all that is another story!
Many of you on WoS did help me on the emulator side of things (you know who you are! ), and again I’d like to say thanks!
Cheers to the ZX Spectrum! 33 years old and now on (albeit emulated and only in a small way) a major release on a current generation console, I'm curious how the young snappers today will view our old favourites, well if they can be dragged away from CoD 45 for 10 minutes!
Amongst the 30 games, it contains seven ZX Spectrum titles:
Jetpac
Lunar Jetman
Atic Atac
Sabre Wulf
Underwurlde
Knight Lore
Gunfright
Each is given some serious Rare lurve, each has a rewind feature to go back the last 10 seconds, a retro CRT (if desired!), a save game feature, and each has five brand new mini-games associated with them. These mini-games highlight the main features of the game to show how to play the game, these are amazing fun.
Anyway….
Whilst we were developing the Ultimate Apps last year, I received an email from Rare (I work for MS) asking for some help on the ZX Spectrum side of things, I was fortunate enough to be invited over, not once but twice and they told me their secret. I also got a fantastic tour of Rare and got to see one of Tim Stampers ZX Spectrums which was cool! I then taught a few ‘young’ developers how to reverse engineer Z80 games using IDA Pro and how my emulator worked, whereby I handed over a port of it to get them started. But all that is another story!
Many of you on WoS did help me on the emulator side of things (you know who you are! ), and again I’d like to say thanks!
Cheers to the ZX Spectrum! 33 years old and now on (albeit emulated and only in a small way) a major release on a current generation console, I'm curious how the young snappers today will view our old favourites, well if they can be dragged away from CoD 45 for 10 minutes!