The ZX Spectrum was a British 8 bit computer from Sinclair Research based on a [[Z80 ]] CPU, like the Amstrad CPC, and was released earlier.
It is known affectuously as the "Speccy".
The good Old Speccy is well known for his dreaded "'''Colour Clashes'''" thanks to it ability to only display 2 bits graphics (2 colours per caracters).
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).
*'''Comparison :'''
The Speccy Video Ram used only 6Ko per screen.
As an exemple, the ZX Spectrum 2+ (equivalent to the CPC 464) released by Amstrad did have 128Ko Ram.
*'''Speccy Porks :'''
CPC's [[Speccy Port|Speccy ports]] were not alway that bad.
Somme Some of them managed to be quite good despite all.
Exemples are R-Type or PacMania.
But those games usually had the same kind of flaws :
Typical exemples or notorious speccy ports : Black tiger, PacR-ManiaType or PacMania.