I've been poorly, cry cry!
Yeh, sorry I've been away from the keyboard for a few more days again. A good reason this time, I've been ill. Actually too ill to turn on the PC. That's pretty bad. Tho' today I was at work (on a nice sunny Saturday), but I have to pay my bills too.
So, apologies over, here's a few bits of news:

• Sprinter : There's a new poll over on Peters Plus about the launching of applications from file manager. Is it good? Not good? Go vote.
• Sprinter : Another item of Sprinter-ness is the review from the most recent issue of Retro Review, which is now available online in the archives section. If you're thinking of buying this machine, check out the review. Of coz, you should already be subscribed, right!?
• Paradox : Well CAFe is underway, but Paradox is only two weeks away. I see that there's now an English version of the site, and also the (updated) rules. Check them out.
• ZXMak : A new version of ZXMak has been released. There's been a few Z80 Core changes, but importantly there's now an English UI. Very handy. It's up to v0.280b3e. The 'e' is for English.
• ZX Transfer : I spotted a post on CSS about a handy ZX Transfer program, for piping files through an IF1. Homepage is in Italian, app is in English. Handy.
• AC Edit : A new version of this text editor (0.63) is up for downloading over at DJH's page.
• BDA : Just recently found a link to Binary Dimension Association, where you can go to grab ooh, loads of stuff. Demos, tools, and of coz Deja Vu 'zine.
• Optical Bros : After a bumpy start, there's now a new design for the homepage of Optical Brothers. It's nice, you should go look. And we can look forward to an English version soon (well, it's hosted on a server in England, so it's only fair <g>).
• ZXVGS : I remember Adamski from the '80s. Crap music. But Jarek Adamski is a rather clever chap (think I met him at ZX-Party). Check out his site, which details a whole bunch of his hardware, ehm, things. Including his ZX O/S, ZXVGS - looks nice. Yes.
• Jarek : A little note about the link to the site I just mentioned actually -- added it to the Demogroups/People section. Well, it seems to fit there quite nicely, eh?
• Scorpion : A new ROM for the Scorpion has cropped up on Speccy4Ever. It's the ProfROM v3.9f 128k. Grab it if you need it, or just for completeness.
• CAFe : If you're wanting a lot of very up-to-date news on the goings-on at CAFe Party, then hook yourself up with a translator at get your arse over to Scenergy, where there's been a couple fairly large posts already, and also to POS, where Himik is making regular updates.

Phew. I think that's all. I know you all hate these "catch-up" sessions... I'm not keen on them. But frankly when there's this much news (I mean, when I've been away for a few days for some reason) it really helps to clear out the back-log. Oh well.