I've had a long day at work, and after a quick trip to the pub (to relax, of coz), I'm only in the mood for a cut-n-paste. This is a snippet from Andrew Owen about Spectrum SE, as noted to me by Gasman and Davide Barlotti. It was posted on CSS, so I guess it's okay to post it here...

" I just got back from up North (where I was stranded owing to the petrol shortage) to find I have been granted a 12 month working holiday visa by the Aussies. This means all my projects are now on hold until I get back from down under. The SE *will* resurface on my return. I'm handing all my Sonic stuff over to Anestis. My Speccy software developments are also on hold and some may not be restarted. In the mean time I am having fun with my ZX Spectrum +2C project. I have now managed to rewire a standard grey +2 so that the monitor port drives an Amstrad CM14 colour monitor with ACB stereo sound. It's lovely. Once I get the ROM I've done for it burned I'll be trying to get hold of a Beta Disk interface and converting the joystick ports to use Mega Drive pads. I'll try and answer any questions while I'm still in the country. My aowen@mail.ru address will still get checked while I'm in Oz if anyone has any pressing questions but I'll be off the ng after October. "

So, there you go. Seems that the ZXSE will be on hold for a while, but I'm interested in this +2C. Could be just what the scene needs, a Speccy with a few more features. Of coz, there's the chance it could cause another (3rd) faction of the scene, but it remains to be, uh, seen.
Spotted some info from Andrew in CSS myself, this time covering ZXSE Emulation. The emulator ZXSP (not listed in my collection, so I'll check it out) was apparently going to provide ZXSE emulation, but Andrew has requested that this be replaced with +2C. New ROMs have been flying about the place, and it'll hopefully be not long before they appear on one of the ROM-sites. The post covers a lot of details about the changes to ROM0, and if you don't have CSS, you can grab the full post here.