Posted By
indi
on 2008-11-18
03:45:50
|  Re: Disc software/games for Plus/4 ?
Its not as simple as the speed. The speccys speed might be faster but instructions take more TStates, and when you work it all out each CPU runs about the same speed (plussy prob slightly faster). However, the Z80 instruction set with its 16bit access and movable stack allows for some pretty cool tricks, on top of that the screen is much better allowing for sprites/pixels to be drawn quicker.
Speccys a great little machine, and was very easy to get into... not hardware, just poke the screen! 
Course... Speccy users would kill for HW Sprites and character maps sometimes as well 
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