Nice Sinclair Spectrum story

On 13 April 2012 00:04, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote: I really don't know. I guess not, although games written with The Quill had no sound or graphics and might have worked on a TS2068. But - perhaps it's me - reading between the lines of your comment, you seem to be making the point that the game was for a minority machine, one that was not significant in the USA? Or so I misunderstand? If so, I'd challenge it. The Sinclair Spectrum was one of the most successful home computers ever made - they sold pretty well across much of Europe, I believe; certainly the later Spectrum 128 model was designed in Spain by Investronica, not Sinclair Research itself. At the time, the Commodore 64 was the only machine that outsold it, and I think that when they were new, the C64 was well over twice the price of the Spectrum. The Speccy was an affordable machine for the masses, whereas the C64 - when new - was an elite, expensive machine for the serious gamer. The even-more-rich who did not want their children to have fun bought BBC Micros. :?) I don't know of any hard sales figures, but the Spectrum sold several million units, I think. It was *absolutely* the most logical machine for a UK band to release a bonus game for; it was *the* dominant home computer of the UK (and I suspect Europe) in the early 1980s. It was quite widely cloned behind the Iron Curtain, too.