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ZX Spectrum Demos

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The demo scene on the ZX Spectrum can probably be traced back to Castor Cracking Group and a few other groups back in 1986. The Speccy demo scene was slow to start, but it started to rise in the late 1980s, most noticably in eastern Europe.

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