Dylan
Hello all.
We hope everyone is doing alright despite the madness going on in the world right now.
So hows goes things here in the community?
The Dizzy Fansite relaunch - 1 year on:
It was a year ago this month when we relaunched this site using Wordpress.
The amount of fantastic content we've managed to add here since then have been phenomenal.
There are more site updates to share further down the page....
40th Anniversary of the ZX Spectrum:
It was on the 23rd April 1982 when the late Sir Clive Sinclair released the ZX Spectrum to the world.
(Artwork by dman from ZX Art)
Now, even though the Dizzy series began its early years being released on the Amstrad CPC first, whether you agree or not, the popularity of series ended up becoming more greater on the Spectrum, we have fan games hosted here that further prove that.
Of course our apologies to any Amstrad, C64, Amiga, Atari, Nintendo, Sega and PC fans if we don't talk about them very often on here, but its mostly because all of us on the team grew up with Spectrums as kids and has left us with very fond memories the most.
And on that note, we will be sharing our tribute to both the Spectrum and Sir Clive on the day.
Spectrum 40 Party:
Sticking with the Spectrum's Anniversary, there is a party planned at Bescot (Banks's) Stadium in Walsall, north west of Birmingham, UK.
The Oliver Twins will be attending the event with a Q & A session and will also be available for signing aswell.
UPDATE: Dizzy fans can now buy a ticket with a 10% discount on the official website.Simply enter the code "DIZZY35".The party will be on Saturday 30th April, 9am - 10:30pm BST.
Further details regarding tickets, other guests and directions are available on the official website.
RetCon 2022:
Later this summer, both The Oliver Twins and The Dizzy Fansite's Andrew Joseph will be attending "Retcon - The Retro Gaming Festival".
The Olivers will be doing talks and bringing in various items from their years with Codemasters, again they will also be available for signing.
What's more, Dizzy's 35th Anniversary will be celebrated there too.
This event will take place in Greenford, West London, UK on Saturday 18th June.
Further details regarding tickets, other guests and facilities can be found on the link below.
(You DON'T need a Facebook account to view the page.)
Now for the site updates:
--- Resources
- We've recently started a clean slate with the Sprite Sheets collection that are on that page.
- There are too many added to list on here, but there's now a mixed collection of Sprite Sheets for the Spectrum, Amiga, NES, Mega Drive, and a few from the 16-bit version of 'Dizzy the Adventurer' to mark one year since our remake's release.
--- Game Sounds
- Replaced all the existing Spectrum and C64 jingles on the page with fresher ones.
- Added jingles from the Amiga, Atari ST and Mega Drive games.
- Both 8-bit and 16-bit jingles are given separate sections on the page.
--- Game Music
- Tidied up the listings on the page.
- All the files on these lists are now in MP3 format.
- New MIDI files for Fantastic Dizzy have been added to its zip archive, download link can be found at the bottom of the page.
--- Fan Art
- New artwork by Simon_3D added.
That's about it for now.
We are keen to continue sharing our eggcellent content despite the uncertain times ahead for many of us.
Take care!
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Team Yolkfolk