🕹️ Davey Sloan 👾

Oh here, as there's loads of new people on here now & we don't have pinned posts it might be time for an introduction. My name's Dave & I'm a huge fan of the #ZXSpectrum During lockdown I started making Speccy games with my son on MPAGD. They're all available for free here: sloanysoft.itch.io

Never expected a game trailer to make me cry when I woke up this morning but there we go.

Sharing this again for people that use social media in the evening. Very proud to be a small part of this incredible project.

I'm no expert, but I'd say it's like walking down a high street, but without cars, you know like you get in many towns and cities. 🤷

Good interview with the late Bernie Drummond, artist who drew Batman on the ZX Spectrum. I enjoyed learning how his relationship with the programmer Jon Ritman started because he was in band who were mates with him. Creative people are often shooting out creativity in many directions.

An ad from one of the most iconic UK game developers in history: Llamasoft! #KevinToms #Llamasoft #GameDeveloper #RetroGame #UKGames #RetroComputers #HomeComputers #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers #UKRetro

Folks, BIG NEWS for all #ZXSpectrum fans. The latest issue of Break Space is OUT NOW! It's got a bit of a Halloween theme. Tonnes of games reviewed & loads of features and in my opinion the greatest cover we've ever done. (Thanks to @keezees.bsky.social ) Get it Noooooooow!

Brand new Spectrum game: Outpost, by reidrac. Download: https://www.usebox.net/jjm/outpost/ #zxspectrum #retrogaming

He pasado una divertida tarde acabándome lo nuevo de Juan J. Martínez "Reidrac": OUTPOST. Exploración, plataformeo y videoaventura en 90 hermosas pantallas. La calidad habitual del autor se junta con entornos laberínticos y cero IA 😜 #ZXSpectrum 🚀 📎https://usebox.net/jjm/outpost/

It seems like actual real humans are still making games for the ZX Spectrum. Love to see it.

www.hairybaby.com/ziggy

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

WARNING, TEAM!

The quality of hand driers in public toilets. Sure some of them are still a bit crap, but a decent percentage of them actually dry your hands properly. None of them did bitd.

You can see why Russ Abbott thought he'd have a go

"go down on me and I'll be satisfied" pure FILTH from the Welsh Elvis there. #totp

Zig, he played guitar. #TOTP

this is correct

I have been quietly busy on a fresh game development. The foundation is in place, I will be building this out step by step. Wanna try it? It plays for free in your browser. https://ktfmweb.kevintoms.games/ #KevinToms #FootballManager #ManagerGame #FootballGame

Heading back to work after lunch with renewed optimism and slightly less imposter syndrome after reading all the Joe Tidy posts.

Only 24 hours left to support the development of Kwyll for the Spectrum Next. If you're interested in drag-and-drop game creation for retro machines, take a look, it might be right up your alley. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind... #zxspectrum #spectrum #spectrumnext

Scrolling through my photos & wishing I was back at Crash Live. Meeting Mel Croucher was absolutely class, as was playing Warlords with @kevintoms.bsky.social

Got my copies of Speccy Nation by @danwhitehead.net volumes 1 and 2! It is an awesome ride to the world of #zxspectrum gaming! Thanks Dan! #8bit #retrogaming

Waitrose there, testing the very extremities of the definition of the word "only".

Currently at #CrashLive 2026 with @sloanysoft.itch.io in the city of Jaguars, 2 Tone and where are those fries I ordered 25 minutes ago?

How it started....how it's going...

If you see me at Crash, feel free to "stop me & buy one". 😄

Back to the fuschia! 💜

IK+ and Dreamtime Monty both strong Next titles.

Final pitstop before Crash Live. Due to congestion on the M6, the satnav took me down the A500, which is an appropriate enough number for going to a retro event.

Look, you can't call your film "Street Fighter" and have all the crazy characters from Street Fighter II onwards. It should be restricted to the ones from the first game like that ridiculously tall English punk, have him banging his head on door frames and not being able to find trousers that fit.

25 years ago today I picked up a copy of this absolute beast of a game in HMV in Manchester. I'm not sure how many hours I ended up playing it...but it was a LOT! The temptation to get back into it is so strong, especially when I see those screenshots. 😍⚽

The artwork style on this football programme from The Netherlands V Northern Ireland, 50 years ago today, is something we definitely need to bring back.

Weirdest thing. One of our more obscure games "Plane Lazy" gets between zero and 1 views per day on itch & has done for a couple of years. 2 days ago it got 65 views from nowhere and today it's on 155 already. No downloads like! I assume it's some sort of AI scraping thing.

GOOD NEWS!!! The USB 50 Project will be featured at the CRASH live event on 17th Saturday October, running a demo teaser on ZX Spectrums of some the games featured in the collection.

#MODtober - A song about delivering Pizza in Space. Made for the forthcoming ZX Spectrum Next game, Space Pizza from @AtomicWindmill youtu.be/CL66hwzAyNY

Looking forward to Crash Live next week. Here's what I got up to last year.

A rainy day at Jodrell Bank has its perks ☔✨ When the puddles line up just right, the Lovell Telescope puts on a whole new show. Which reflection is your favourite? 👇 📸 Image credit: Jon Dixon

If you’re looking for an OutRun port made with Love by a human. ❣️🌴 rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun

I'm not saying it's all Americans that shout "Top of the Pops" during a performance on Top of the Pops, but it does seem to generally be only Americans that shout "Top of the Pops" during a performance on Top of the Pops. #TOTP

Got my old ZX Spectrum 128K +2 working again finally! Then the first game I played I lost the first round and had to rewind the tape back, reload and then try again! I guess that's not the part I miss! #retro #zxspectrum #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Guess who's back!

I don't often post about the auld football, but I mean ...come on!!!

@phlaimeaux.bsky.social @maxrushden.bsky.social THIS is what we did in the days before "What did you do yesterday?" #INITFORLIFE

Aye, sure fire away enormous black hole.

30 September 1 October

Jingle all the Sleigh. (Am I doing it right?)

Honestly fair play to them for not just shipping a shoddy product. Still no interest like, but I don't think I was ever really the target demographic.

Nice to see your merch on sale in Betws-y-Coed @sloanysoft.itch.io