I hope you’ve had a great start to the new year. We have a nice little offer for you this month. If you order an 8BitDo pad with any physical game, you get a £3 discount on the joypad.
Also to help out those of you overseas I’ve overhauled the Ebay listing, so there are more current products available here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/206030561740
I’ll be keeping that available for those of you that prefer it.
There’s Technoshed content appearing in Next mag – so there’s a shout out there. Jamie (our resident rock god) has been making videos on the next, and music making in general. Give him a watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCT0od_7T8mWEWHpqg0GKMg
Stay tuned for next month’s exciting installment – same time same bat channel!
We’re up close now in terms of orders being sent in time for Christmas. We have the lovely themed mouse, Captain Square Jaw available once again as well as the usual 8bitdo controllers. If you order in time for Christmas we’ll throw in a free 8bitdo sized case (while stocks last!)
Last posting date is 19th December (Friday) for guaranteed delivery. We’ll obviously do our best beyond that though.
Don’t forget there’s demos of Torvin and Go with the flow available to download and try at https://TechnoShedSoftware.com
Wishing you and yours a happy and content Christmas or if you don’t celebrate a relaxing few days off!
Rich, Rozelle, Paige and the whole Technoshed Team.
By the time you read this the Shed team will all be at the Holiday Inn in Kenilworth, hopefully set up and ready with lots of lovely games for all you nextchums 🙂
You can come and see us over the weekend, and buy all the titles we have from all the contributors, cables, 8Bitdo joypads and Nextduinos.
We have several exciting previews for you, and several brilliant demos for you to play. You can download the brand new GoWithTheFlow!Demo here: https://technoshedsoftware.com/?page_id=2260
We will be selling 8BitDo M30 2.4G pads for £18 for the weekend, both at the crash event and online!
Thanks all, and look forward to seeing you over the weekend!
It’s shaping up to be a really busy time in the Technoshed. We’re busy working on new games which we hope to share with you lovely people very soon – some of them will be on display at Crash Live, talking of which, if you order and select the no post option, and say you’re collecting from crash you’re reserving your games/cables/controllers to be collected at Crash sans postage, but don’t forget to actually pick them up!
We now have 3 different cables you’ll find really useful for your next!
The Scart cable for using analogue video – the next looks amazing on a CRT. SCART
The tape cable for loading games from a cassette deck Tape Lead
PS2 Splitter cable for connecting a PS2 mouse and a PS2 keyboard to your next/ngo/xberry-pi at the same time. PS2 Splitter
We look after games for a whole bunch of developers now: Rusty Pixels for Rusty Pixels WASP for WASP Cavern for Cavern Greenman for Greenmansoft and Bret’s Amiga MOD version of the music.
Last but definitely not least: TX-1696 for Technoshed and Lucky Red Fish’s TX-1696 and Music collection (including limited edition vinyl – there will never be another run!)
We also still have the fantastic 8bitdo M30 2.4G controllers which are perfect for the Next (and the sega Megadrive!) 8bitdo
Torvin: Echo of the Realms is progressing well – I’ll just share this to whet your appetite :
If you’d like a gameplay taster don’t forget theres a demo available at: https://technoshedsoftware.com/torvin-echo-of-the-realms – the graphics have moved on massively thanks to the amazing talents of Zingot. There are multiple pieces of AY music in progress for the later levels. We can’t wait to share more with you!
I’ve written a simple plugin for searching for Spectrum Next games. I’ll be sharing this with all the other sites that are written on wordpress. I’m also working on a version that Fusion can use with their shopify based site too.
I’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions. The intention is to keep all the next sites in sync so wherever you find you games list, it’s complete. I’ll be sharing the plugin soon!
We will be taking a few Nextduinos in the next style case – it has a couple of extras with it only for the show!
On top of that we’re heading very fast towards the premier speccy event of the year, the Crash Live show at Kenilworth. If you’re attending and would like to order anything for pickup just leave a note on your order!
We are putting up Scart video cables and PS2 splitters for the next this evening, and we also have a selection of WASP games, Baggers in space and detour, Magnum, Bikers and Tengu from Cavern, as well as TX-1696 and Xenobrigade Extinction currently.
I’ve just re-enabled US postage on technoshedsoftware.com. I’ve added a mechanism to try and cover the surcharge correctly depending on number of items ordered. If anyone tries it and finds issues please let me know. I will take the attitude of sending a couple of orders and holding back so we can see how it goes without you or me losing money or games.
Bret (Bapstar) had a another great review of his excellent Puremod remix CDs – Remixing the music from Xenobrigade and TX-1696 on amiga. Be sure to check them out on the shop! https://technoshedsoftware.com/product-category/cd
Just a friendly reminder that ks3 goes live tomorrow morning at 8am. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0?ref=android_project_share
To celebrate Technoshed is offering 20% off everything for the duration of the Kickstarter campaign – use the code ks3-2025 to get your discount!
This applies to the back catalogue of cavern games as well as to Technoshed. We’re hoping to have a demo of something else new for you all soon!
Hi Shedsters, Hope you’re all well and enjoying the vague warmth and moistness that is the summer.
We had a great weekend at Retcon speaking to lots of you lovely people, and were there to see the fantastic news about KS3. I was also able to catch up with Tony Warriner and Stoo Cambridge. It’s not released by technoshed, but Rich is doing the sound and helping with some of the audio code on this title (pledge here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tonywarriner/urbx-warriors-an-original-game-for-the-spectrum-next).
We’re currently beavering away in the background here at Technoshed bringing you new games and software. there is a nice teaser here of something we’re working hard on alongside other projects https://zxart.ee/eng/authors/z/zingot1/super-spinball2/
We still have plenty of M30 8bitdo pads left and we will be selling some bluetooth adapters soon. In the meantime I must mention our friends at https://www.retroez.com/shop/ZX-Spectrum-c173863538/. Ady is looking at producing more hardware for speccy and next alongside the amiga hardware he already produces and is a lovely guy.
