Thanks for this - R-Type remains one of my all-time top-ten games, and, despite never having owned a Spectrum of any flavour (though having been around people who did when they were still current), that was a fascinating read. The port is also utterly astounding in light of the capabilities of the ZX Spectrum (as well as most software then-written for it), as well as the pressures on the author to complete it.
Funny how it brought back a number of incidental memories, and previously I had never had any idea how incestuously-related the ST version (which I did play the hell out of at the time) was to the Spectrum version. Great stuff.
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