I've heard from a number of places some rumours about uber-emulator RealSpectrum. I don't want to give any clues away as to things to expect in the forthcoming beta8 apart from saying that I've been informed it'll be released in a few days time. No, most of the information I have is relating to the not-even-thought-of beta9.
First up, Davide Barlotti is minus a Scorpion right now, as he's lent it to the Ramsoft team to allow them to better emulate this machine. I've never seen any major problems with the Scorpion emulation, but then I've never had a real Scorpion to compare it with. The results of this could see themselves in either of the upcoming betas.
The next rumour is of more interest to me, and perhaps a lot of the European scene. Work on Beta9 will commence right after Beta8 is released, and one of the items supposedly on the agenda is support for MB02. If you don't know this interface then pop over to Sintech for some tech-info. It really is a dream interface, with support for tape-emulation on disk, DMA, IM2-while-loading, ... and now it might be included in an emulator at last. Perhaps we'll see a few new users of it out there now.
I should finally remind you that these are rumours... hopefully they're true, but maybe they're not. If this is the case... hassle Sanchez for the features you want <g>.