*Inferior to the [[Amiga]] (the war still rages on).
*A Hardware [[MIDI|Midi Port]] : this spawned a generation of Musician Geeks.
*used widely in Amstrad CPC software developments (mostly games ?).
*Quite similar Video Resolutions : 320x200x16.
*Possibility of a good [[Graphic User Interface|GUI]] : easier, really.
*Same Sound Chip : almost.
*Quite powerfull to calculate sweet Data compression (used in [[Xyphoes Fantasy]])