It was in many respect like the Amstrad to the point that so many Amstrad CPC games were in fact ZX Spectrum ports : the shamefull [[Speccy Port|Speccy ports]].
==an awesome Graphic Genius==
The main difference between those 2 systems was the Video Display method.
The good Old Speccy is well known for his dreaded "'''Colour Clashes'''" thanks to it ability to only display 2 1 bits graphics with attributes (2 colours per caracterscharacters)in a 256x192 resolution.
It could of course display more than 2 colours on the screen thank to the technic called colour attributes (a grid is applied to the screen to give "attributes" to each caracters).
The ZX Spectrum Killed the Amstrad CPC...sort of.
Also Amstrad bought the ZX Spectrum range and released it's its own ZX spectrum range.
And this also killed the Amstrad CPC commercially.