Welcome!


This site is dedicated to the games I've written for Sinclair's ZX81 & Spectrum home computers.

In 2005 a friend persuaded me to submit a Spectrum game I'd written years earlier as a teenager and had been re-discovered in a box of tapes from my parent's attic, to Cronosoft, a modern retro-computer publishing house.  They liked it, published it, and in the next four years I wrote a further nine games for the machine.

In 2010 I decided it was time for a change, and so took a step backwards in time and started to write for the ZX81, a much slower and less feature-rich machine than the Spectrum, but full of promise.  Two games in, and a brief return to the Spectrum was required to bring the fourth Horace game back to its spiritual home, before returning back to the '81.

In 2012, another four games were released - an ASCII-based shoot'em-up for the 48K Spectrum called 'LumASCII', 'Noir shapes' - a tile-based puzzle game for the 16K ZX81, 'Impact!' - a conversion of the familiar arcade game 'Asteroids' to the 16K ZX81, and 'One Little Ghost' - a rewrite of the familiar arcade game 'Pac-Man' for the 16K ZX81 but with the tables turned and in isometric 3D.

And now, our first game of 2013 - Gem Chaser - a fiendish little arcade puzzler.


Cheers,

Bob.