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The demise of the Speccy in the early 1990s isn't the end of the story. Because it's so simple, it's easy to clone. The first Speccy clone was an authorized version by Timex (yes, the wristwatch company) for the United States, Portugal and Poland. Unauthorized Speccy clones started appearing in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, followed by several countries in eastern Europe, along with India, Brazil and Argentina. It's still made today in Russia. |
The demise of the Speccy in the early 1990s isn't the end of the story. Because it's so simple, it's easy to clone. The first Speccy clone was an authorized version by Timex (yes, the wristwatch company) for the United States, Portugal and Poland. Unauthorized Speccy clones started appearing in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, followed by several countries in eastern Europe, along with India, Brazil and Argentina. It's still made today in Russia. |
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The fansite [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum], which is officially endorsed by Amstrad, offers various emulators for the system and most of the original games for free as memory dumps or tape images. <ref>(If you don't want to [[Gannon Banned|get flamed by the Spectrum community]], ''never'' refer to any Spectrum game as a "ROM"...unless you're referring to an Interface 2 cartridge, of which only |
The fansite [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum], which is officially endorsed by Amstrad, offers various emulators for the system and most of the original games for free as memory dumps or tape images. <ref>(If you don't want to [[Gannon Banned|get flamed by the Spectrum community]], ''never'' refer to any Spectrum game as a "ROM"...unless you're referring to an Interface 2 cartridge, of which only a handful were released. Arcade and console game images are called "ROMs" because that's literally what they are; as already mentioned, almost no Speccy games were ever released on ROM.)</ref> The site has gone all out to ask the original producers of the games for permission to [[Abandonware|distribute them freely]] (permission which has been granted in the majority of cases, the exceptions mostly being games published by companies that still exist who fear that they compromise the integrity of their current catalogs by allowing free download of something that ceased to be profitable to them in 1993). Nevertheless, the site has about 90% of the computer's software library up for free legal download. |
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