What's New

• Added an additional 13 games.
• Added support for 48K and 128K BASIC programming.
• Brand new retro look and feel.
• The whole app now runs in portrait or landscape modes - no need to rotate to portrait to use the menus.
• Added support for the iControlPad and iCade external controllers.
• Moved app settings into the app itself.

App Description

In April 1982, Sir Clive Sinclair launched what was to become one of the most popular home computers ever made - the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Spectaculator takes you back to the era where games were less about graphics and more about gameplay.

This is the free version of Spectaculator which includes several games written by members of the worldwide ZX Spectrum community during the past couple of years:

    - Alter Ego
    - Banger Management
    - Bipboi
    - Catch the Cash
    - Cray-5
    - Crimbo
    - Dingo
    - Egghead in Space
    - Flynn's Adventure in Bombland
    - Genesis: Dawn of a New Day
    - Ghost Castle
    - Ghost Castle 2
    - Gloop Troops
    - Gloop Troops - The Lost Crown
    - Homebrew
    - Kyd Cadet
    - Kyd Cadet II
    - Stamp Quest
    - Tiles
    - Trooper: Point 5
    - Wunderchar$

...and... an iPhone/iPad exclusive!!
    - Gloop Troops - The Lost Crown by Little Shop of Pixels

Spectaculator gives you the most authentic ZX Spectrum experience available on the iOS platform along with lots of additional features:

• Play in portrait or landscape orientations
• Save your game progress (four saved game slots per game)
• Enter pokes (cheats) for infinite lives, shields etc.
• Lookup game hints, tips and maps
• Type on a virtual ZX Spectrum keyboard
• Choose authentic cassette loading or fast play
• Program in Sinclair BASIC
• Enjoy high resolution graphics on Retina screens
• Purchase additional classic games from the in-app shop
• Play using an external arcade controller (iCade or iControlPad)

ADDITIONAL FEATURES IN THE PAID VERSION
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• Purchase additional 1980s classic games from the in-app shop
• Battle to the top of the (Game Center) leaderboards!

GAMES AVAILABLE IN THE PAID VERSION
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Base Pack (included)
- 3D Starstrike by Realtime Games Software
- Tau Ceti by Pete Cooke/CRL
- Dynamite Dan by Rod Bowkett/Mirrorsoft
- On The Run by Design Design
- Albatrossity by Jonathan Cauldwell
- The Fantastic Mister Fruity by Jonathan Cauldwell
- Battery's Not Precluded by Jonathan Cauldwell
- Jekyll & Hyde by Zenobi Software

The following single games are available from the in-app shop:

    - Carrier Command (1989)
    - Dynamite Dan II (1986)
    - Frank N. Stein (1984)

The following games packs are available from the in-app shop:

Design Design Games Pack
    - Halls of the Things
    - Dark Star
    - Forbidden Planet

Realtime Games Pack
    - Starstrike II
    - 3D Tank Duel

Zenobi Adventure Pack Vol. 1
    - Aura-Scope
    - The Gods of War
    - Leopold The Minstrel
    - Murder.. He Said!
    - Stranded!
    - The Beast

Zenobi Adventure Pack Vol. 2
    - The Khangrin Plans
    - The Krazy Kartoonist Kaper
    - A Murder Mystery Weekend
    - Rhyme Cryme
    - Stalker!
    - The Thirty-Nine Steps

Modern Gems Vol. 1 (FREE)
    - Alter Ego
    - Catch the Cash
    - Crimbo
    - Flynn's Adventure in Bombland
    - Gloop Troops
    - Gloop Troops - The Lost Crown
    - Kyd Cadet
    - Kyd Cadet II

Modern Gems Vol. 2 (FREE)
    - Bipboi
    - Cray-5
    - Ghost Castle
    - Ghost Castle 2
    - Homebrew
    - Wunderchar$

Modern Gems Vol. 3 (FREE)
    - Egghead in Space
    - Genesis: Dawn of a New Day
    - Tiles
    - Banger Management
    - Stamp Quest
    - Trooper: Point 5

Download Spectaculator now and start playing the games of yesteryear all over again!

Want to see Spectaculator in action? View the demonstration video here:
http://youtu.be/JOm_5AZ4F9U

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