Fusion Retro Books

They have a nice book about the ZX Spectrum, might be interesting for the UK guys, who had mostly Sinclairs at the time. Already 2 volumes available.

http://www.fusionretrobooks.com/

No one interested?

I would be if the book would arrive here In Lisbon for a bit less... 25 pounds plus shipping...

I was one of the few whom never owned a ZX Spectrum back in the 80s. I owned an Amstrad CPC instead. A few friends had them so I got to play on them, but the software was mostly inferior to the Amstrad, or the same as a lot of developers were lazy and just did straight ports.

Sorry, I meant to post the first time around but didn't immediately and forgot.

I actually contributed to the kickstarter of this as I did his earlier Ocean book and have again for volume 2 of this. It arrived last week but I haven't read it yet. I'm not actually particularily interested in the Spectrum, but it does have its place in history as many british developers started out on one. I think the Spectrum really only did well in the UK, but I may be wrong. I never knew anyone that had one back then here anyway.

It was released under a different name in the USA. The Timex Sinclair 2068. And there were loads of Eastern Block clones so fairly popular in Russia.

The 2068 were built in Portugal. The markets were Portugal, Spain, Poland, Mexico, Russia, and maybe some more. It only had small improvements.

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But didnt know about USA. Maybe they were built in other countries as well.

You also had the Timex Sinclair 1000, which was a ZX-81 clone.

I just looked it up and it was Timex of Portugal that produced the Timex Sinclair models for export to the USA, and also released them in Portugal and Poland. And I didn't know this, but it was Timex of Scotland who produced the original Sinclair computers, so that is why Timex got the contract and branded them for the USA market.