Was EuroPC another Amiga wanna be....?

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Yeah I remember those speccys, released back in Sept '87 IIRC.

A mate had one, which as you say used those indestructable 3inch floppies from Amstrad that no-one else used.  

Despite a radical overhaul of the motherboard, we were still left with the awful Speccy graphics and tinny AY sound chip, a C64 beater it wasn't....

Around the same time, my mate bought a +2 and an expansion port which connected to a 3.5" floppy familiar to us today.  With 720Kb it was twice the capacity of the 3 inch drives and was quite a nice machine.

The EuroPC reminds me of the Sinclair PC200, which was basically a PC clone in an Amiga 500/Atari ST alike box.  Awful machine...

The other one which sprang to mind was the Miles Gordon Technology Sam Coupe, which was speccy compatible.  It too featured 3.5 inch drives, with space for two drives slotted in the front of the machine.  I never used one, but it was everything that the Speccy +3 should have been from what I've heard of it.

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Yeah the SAM wasn't the prettiest, but I liked it.  It wasn't exactly Spectrum based either, as it featured a faster CPU but happened to have legacy compatability with 48k speccys.  Apparently there was a feature where you could edit the screen colours of speccy games when running them on a SAM, but seeing as I've never used one I can't confirm it.

The Archimedes was a lovely machine...  4096 colours, with 256 on screen at once, 8 channel sound...  How come the hardware sucked?  I saw a couple of Arch demos and was very impressed.

I too remember Silica selling those Mega PCs back in the day too...  You can get an Amstrad emailer machine today that's Spectrum compatible too.