A couple announcements appeared on the Peters Plus site. One was about a new version of the Sprint emulator from Shaos (tho' I didn't spot any update on the site - hmm). The other announcement was that a demo release of the upcoming Sprinter game "Thunder in the Deep" (yes it's the result of last night's curry) will be out shortly. Sweet.

Andrew Owen has released a new, bug-fixed version of SE Basic. It's up to v0.71, with hopefully the ability to work with ZXATASP and ResiDOS. It's available for download from the WOS BASIC page, tho' there's not a link to the file yet, so grab it here.

There's been a big update over at TZX Vault. A whole bunch of new files for ZX, C64, and Vic20.
See, I can understand why we have TZX's -- it allows for perfect copies of tape-loaders. But... is there anyone who doesn't just speed-load the things? Hmm.

Something over on VORC caught my eye. The "Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper" is basically a disk controller for PC/Mac/Amiga. It's designed to allow you to read non-standard disks, and the article on Vorc lists a few of them, most interestingly "further 8-bit formats planned". Hmm, okay so they're planned, but I'm thinking MB02, TR-DOS, and so on.
Oh and there's a possibility of a SID chip slapped onto it. Where's the AY, eh!?

In case you didn't guess from the headline, there's a new version of Vortex Tracker II released. v1.0 alpha 6 brings with it the ability to import .ASC, .PSC, and .FLS modules. Importing of Sound Tracker modules has also been improved. Handy.

Quick thanks go to Gaby Chaudry for pointing me in the right direction regarding the "Z80 Support Page". It's now hosted on the rather sensible z80.info domain. Information on Z80's, you see. Lovely.

It's not often that a website has a version associated with it, but if you click around you can find "EMS 2.0", or El Mundo Del Spectrum (which translates as "The World Of The Spectrum" - guess "WOS" had already gone, eh?).
I spotted news of this on speccy.org. It gets extra points because the Babelfish translation includes the word "Vestibules". Fantastic!
I've not really had a chance to look around, but it looks... nice enough. Tho' again, it's in Spanish. Pity. Means I get bombarded with adverts. Ho-hum.

As the headline says, a new (0.3) version of Video Studio is out. You can go grab it from DJH Downloads. Note that it's only on the Russian version of the site. Set translators to Stun!

Small note here to mention that WOS has listed a new version of "The E-Z80 Way", a windows-based Z80 Cross-Assembler. What's new? Dunno.

Okay, a few little notes for the moment, as I'm rather tired. Oh yes, moan moan moan. But hey, I need sleep too, you know.

• There's a new website for the 'zine ZX Digest. Go check it for subscription details and stuff. And yes, I will be subscribing myself, soon.
• I got a mail with a link to the new homepage of Skrju, but there's... nothing there except some stats. Keep an eye on it, it will hopefully appear soon.
• Oh thanks to Gas13 for pointing out that the BGE release that I "announced" yesterday is actually "coming soon". Oops.
• A post on comp.sys.sinclair mentions that Shaos have (has?) released a new version of SCR-Editor, the... SCR Editor.
• There's an interface screenshot of the upcoming BMP2SCR - and yes, I know I forgot the link yesterday. Sorry.
• Some chatter on the Peters Plus General Forum about a new beta CD-Player for the Sprinter. Ok, so it's chatter from just the developer (Shaos), but there you go.
• Zlincon photos. Yes yes, Zlincon Photos.
• If you're hungry for music then Sergey has just released a new version of Vortex Tracker II. It's at v1.0a5, and it now imports .PT2, .STC, .ZXS, .STP, and .SQT files.

There's lovely. Sorry for general crapness at the moment. Lot's of work to do, meaning I feel like shit most evenings. Boohoo. Pity me.