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Maybe in US, that never happened in Iberian Peninsula.

Spain and the UK were a ZX Spectrum zone.

Portugal saw a bit of Amiga penetration (at least anecdotally judging from my social group). But yes no where near the Spectrum.

I had an Amiga 500 in Spain. You could see them in some stores, but I did never met anyone else who owned one.

See my sibling comment. I was the PC guy among the high school gang full with Amigas.

Weekends spent doing protacker session, checking content of newly traded floppies, trying to stuff in 68000, and then coming home and trying to replicate something on a 386SX.

And Amiga when 16 bit days arrived, and there was no problem getting Amiga 1000s even on my tiny town.

I was the only guy on computer gang that got a PC instead, due to the way my parents saw it as a safer bet for the money being invested. Somehow they were right, regarding how computer market evolved years later.

So I was floating between PC and Amiga demoscene.

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