Only a small bit of (sad) news this evening. Just seen this update over at the SpeccyAL site:
"I have some bad news for you, Speccyal lovers ... I have decided to focus on my social life instead of programming, for many reasons. [snip] My wish would be that someone would continue my project. Any candidate (if you do so, drop me a line) ?"
Well, it's a shame that this project isn't being directly continued, but the source code is there for people to grab, so maybe someone will take up the gauntlet. I'm tempted to myself, but with all my other projects... hmm...