September 1986: #crashmagazine tells the story of Jon Ritman.
From making a living of TVs and radios to programming Spectrum classics like Match Day and Batman. Also, he's currently working on a new game with the provisional name of Foot & Mouth...
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September 1986: #crashmagazine tells the story of Jon Ritman.
From making a living of TVs and radios to programming Spectrum classics like Match Day and Batman. Also, he's currently working on a new game with the provisional name of Foot & Mouth...
"Genesis, Birth of a Game" was a #crashmagazine competition from 1986 for readers to design a game which would then be commercially released. It was eventually won by a C64 owner! 🙄
The game:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2678/ZX-Spectrum/Kat_Trap
Short & sweet
( #crashmagazine , august 1986)
#crashmagazine interview from july 1986. Tigress Marketing, the trio that doesn't code nor publish, just has ideas instead
I'm too old to understand this!
( #crashmagazine , july 1986)
1986: #crashmagazine music expert, Jon Bates, takes a look at AY-3-8921 A, the amazing sound chip, whose name looks like a car license plate, incorporated in the new 128K model.
Includes a short program to play the legendary 80s' Ghostbusters tune.
Play it like it's 1984 again!
The state of software industry in 1986 according to one of the most original & independent game coders
In may 1986 #crashmagazine visited Eastbourne, England, to meet Martech team and told their story
A very cool prize
( #crashmagazine , april 1986)
Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/
#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #
April 1986: With the recent release of Spectrum 128, #crashmagazine reviews some games for the new machine
Those were the times... (even for Spurs!)
( #crashmagazine , april 1986)
Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/
#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum
#crashmagazine interviewed Mel Croucher in 1986. His upcoming releases and his views on the future of software industry
In case anyone's interested
( #crashmagazine , 1986)
What an evil teacher!
( #crashmagazine , march 1986)
1986: #crashmagazine travels to Ireland to tell the curious story of St. Bride's School and their text adventures
#crashmagazine exclusive: Henry VIII & Mike Meek (Mikro-Gen) meet
1986 #crashmagazine report on Durell Software, the company behind many cool Spectrum classics
#crashmagazine, february 1986: a Spectrum myth has been revealed!
#zxspectrum #lunarjetmantrailer #lunarjetman #retrogaming #fake
Videogame championships were a thing back in the day
(#crashmagazine, february 1986)
In february 1986 #crashmagazine visits Gremlin Graphics HQ to tell us more about their upcoming game The Way of the Tiger
In 1986, #crashmagazine interviewed Helen & David Reidy from Microsphere and told us their story
More #RetroGaming goodness arrives! #CrashMagazine is amazingly up to issue 31 now since the relaunch. 😮