Finally tonight (phew, I'm tired), I had a mail from Richard Tarjan about... the GMX-board (you may remember this from previous posts about Scorpion/Pentagon info). Richard has written a "*very* comprehensive Speccy-hardware review in a PC-mag. It contains all recent Speccy-hw in 2000". It's all available online, but only in Hungarian (natch). I've not been able to translate it, but I can at least look at the pictures and read up on some of the specs. And he's right, it does look very good -- maybe some of the people on CSS should check this out to prove the Speccy is still alive [private joke].
As I said, the mail was about the GMX Mainboard, and here's a brief translation that Richard provided:

" - GMX: Graphic Memory eXpander: It is emulating Pentagon with 90+% of success (95%?, 99%?-who knows the deepest secrects of a Pentagon...)
- also emulates 4 other Speccy variants and the pure Speccy also
- it has 2MB of RAM (2*1mb blocks)
- new color mode: 640*200*16 (graphics), 80*25 (text)
- CPU: 3,5/7 MHz Z80B, and 14 MHz is being developed "

The more I find out about this board, the more I like it. <homer>Mmmm, new gfx modes</homer>.
I also checked out the rest of the site (Sinclair-Hotline), and would recommend it to any Spectrum-fan (despite the lack of an English interface). It's one of those "browse-around-and-you'll-find-something-nice" sites. While I was looking, I found around 60(!) ROMs to download. Should be good for any emulator-writers.
Anyway, I think that's enough for tonight. Have fun.