La boite qui commercialise la console
ZX Spectrum Vega+ vient d'annoncer la mise à disposition prochaine d'un SDK (en septembre) , ainsi que le lancement d'un concours de programmation de jeux.
Les jeux qui seront assez bons serons
sans doute livrés avec les consoles téléchargeables (c'est moins cher pour eux de faire un concours que de payer des développeurs
) mais il y aura peut-être des prix intéressants à gagner.
Les règles complètes seront publiés en septembre, ce qui vous laisse une petite longueur d'avance pour potasser les docs techniques du ZX-Spectrum pendant les vacances
Voici le communiqué officiel en Anglais pour patienter :
Retro Computers Ltd is pleased to announce a game creation competition which is being launched in September to coincide with the start of the new school year.
Anyone may take part. There will be two sections – one for games enthusiasts who are under 16 years of age on September 1st 2016, and an “Open” section which has no age restriction – adults are also welcome to enter. Prizes will be offered in both sections, and the best games will be available for free download for owners of the ZX Vega+ and its predecessor the ZX Vega.
In the 1980s the huge popularity of the Sinclair ZX range of computers and other home computer products created a whole generation of “coders” ‒ computer programmers ‒ in the UK and in many other countries as well. Very soon Britain was a world leader in the field of programming, and the effects have continued to be felt to the present day as that particular generation matured and moved up the computing careers ladder.
Our launch of the Vega+ Game Coding Competition is designed particularly to stimulate the growing interest in coding amongst the current generation of schoolchildren, and thereby to create a similarly enthusiastic generation of coders for the UK in the coming years.
The software utilities necessary to create games for the Vega+ (and the Vega) will be available from the Retro Computers Ltd web site at the beginning of September, together with full rules for the competition.