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Re:Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum by manytimesaway on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:05PM (#50073933)
Obviously since it was initially an Investronica (local Sinclair distributor) initiative.

Not really in UK or other European countries (besides the Amstrad almost-knockoff).

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Re:Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum by pjmlp on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:28PM (#50074380)
Most other European countries were C64 and MSX territory.

It is strange that on UK, Speccy birthplace they were apparently rare, given all the Crash and Your Sinclair magazines I owned at the time, and related content.

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Re:Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum by TechnicianTed on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:12PM (#50079646)
Sinclair didn't bring the 128K+ to the UK until early 1986 because he wanted to run down the 48K+ stock at Christmas.

Amstrad bought Sinclair in spring 1986 and they ran down the remaining 128K+ stock, meanwhile the grey +2 was already ready to manufacture - they'd already designed the case and reversed engineered the 128K+ to get a head start. It was in the shops by that autumn.

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