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A Speccy Port or Spectrum port is the name given to a game which has been converted directly from the Sinclair Spectrum with little or no changes to the Amstrad CPC. Often the Amstrad version ended up fairing worse than the original Spectrum version(though some games actually ended up pretty decent).
==Why ?==
The [[ZX Spectrum]] shared the same CPU as the Amstrad and had a simple graphics display. The Spectrum was very popular with the Amstrad having a much less smaller market share.
To "gain" save on time and money, the Spectrum code was re-used.
The Amstrad screen was reduced in size to match the Spectrums Spectrum's and often most of the colour was removed. Most spectrum ports were done in [[Video modes|Video Mode 1]] (4 colour mode), because the resolution of this mode matched the resolution of the Spectrum, and this allowed the use of the same graphics.
Speccy port was ports were also seen on the [[MSX]] and Enterprise.
A typical Spectrum port to the Amstrad is said to have been done in 3 days.
==Games Cross development==
As British Market was dominated by Speccy, the CPC had to deal with more Speccy ports than needed. But in a country such as France (and Speain too) were or Spain where the CPC was the Dominant dominant 8 bit machine, Developpers developpers used different method.
Often an [[Atari|Atari ST]] was used for Cross Development in France.