As mentioned a while back there's a new page "coming up" hosted by speccy.cz. Well now it's there.
T.C.G. are a ZX group who've produced a demos and tools which you can go download. And happily, they've provided the page in English too.
As well as that, you can download a "classic" game from many years ago, Podraz 3, which Wixet and Bobble have kindly translated into English.
A nice page, and worth checking out even if just for the "let's take the piss out of Wixet" comment on the demos section <g>.

You may remember a while ago I mentioned Csaba Gondos, and his project creating a SmartMedia interface for the ZX. A nice idea, especially if you already have a bunch of the cards lying around from your digital camera or mp3-player.
Well thanks go to Ricsibu for news that "tuned up" QL's and Z88's will soon be appearing. I don't have much information, but keep an eye out.

ZX Format if you didn't already know is a 'zine based on the Spectrum, which should really be taken up by Future Publishing to sit alongside "PC Format", "Linux Format" and "Cross-stitch Format".
Well, it's second issue is out, and it's freely downloadable in .PDF format. Download it at work and you can even print it out for free. If your workplace is anything like mine, it means you get exercise running to the printer before someone spots that you're using office facilities for something "not work-related". But I digress.
There's not much to say apart from telling you to grab this latest issue which has been out for around a week now.
My only negative comment is the massive pop-up when you go to the homepage - something to do with cjb.net I guess.

If you don't already know what an RZX file is, i'll attempt to enlighten you. Quickly.
An .RZX file is basically a recording of what's going on on a Spectrum. It's used to record game progress, which is good for competitions and things of that ilk.
Anyway, a new site is up, like the TZX Vault, but for these recording files. It's called the RZX-Archive. Not much there at present, but keep an eye out, and record your own.
Oh, while we're here a couple ideas for domain-names based on a once-good Sci-Fi series: RZX-Files and TZX-Files. Oh, and don't forget ZX-Files. I'd get them myself, but I already have more domains than I know what to do with. I'm happy to do some hosting, tho'.

Bunching the graphics news into one post. Oh, I'm a trickster. I simply want to get to bed soon.
Gas13 has added a couple releases from the recent Phat2 party to his homepage. You can go check out his work "Underwater", and also "Mandella" by pROF/4D.
To continue with news about Gas13, you may like to check out an interview with him over at everchangingart.com. And if that's not enough, there's another interview over at ZpiXel.
More news from ZpiXel: New galleries for the recent CAFe'2002 and Paradox parties.
Finally from the graphics side of things, two more galleries have appeared on ZpiXel. One is a personal gallery from Newart, and the other is a set of graphics from the demo "Summermilk".
Go get yourself some eyecandy.

In the last week or so there's been a few uploads to the Sprinter homepage. There's also been some news on developments.
There's a neat Z88DK, a development kit for the... Z88. But now it supports the Sprinter too.
A handy conditional execution tool has been added - guess it's good for scripts and stuff, eh?
Ans also there's a new version of a Tetris game by Shaos, complete with source.
Lovely.

Okay. I'm tired, and after an impromptu week off, there's a fair bit of news to get through. I'll get to it over the next couple days.
Also, if anyone has mailed me with news that hasn't appeared here, please mail me again. I had a huge number of emails to download, so I used webmail to remove the crap/spam... I think I may have deleted some news too. Sorry if I did. Oops.

I mentioned briefly the other day about the updates on ZpiXel (dated at around a month ago, tho' they've only just appeared). Well I thought I'd expand on what's there.
There's a couple "reviews" of the graphics competitions from a couple old compo's, CC'001 and Phat1.
There's an interview with Pheel/Phantasy, which took place just after CC'001 last year.
The results of CAFe Party are on the site (tho' not the releases), and there's been a couple gallery updates too.
Finally there's some information on the Shit'2002 competition from earlier this year. If you think you deserve a prize for your entry then wait, and it may get to you. Eventually. Check the site for details.

A quick post to say that the following emulators have been updated recently:

• ASpectrum : 0.1.6 : This release brings a new sound engine, border emulation, and of coz bugfixes.
• UnrealSpeccy : bugfix : just spotted that there's a bugfix patch available on DJ's page - no details of what tho'.

If you haven't already voted in the Minigame competition, then I suggest you hurry up and... oh... too late.
Yes, the competition is over, voting has closed, and a winner has been announced: Splatform/C64 by Robin Harbron. Well done Sir.
Full details of the results can be seen at the homepage, along with stats (average score), and some comments about the games. Highest ZX placing was 1Kanoid by Paolo Ferraris, which came in at number 5. A respectable position when it was up against over 60 other entries.
And hey, at least when I checked, the comment I put about the compo is at the top of the list... "lovely. mmm." says it all, I think <g>.