Spotted this rather sad post over on X-Agons Message Board from Yerzmyey, fellow member of Raww Arse, and of Hooy Program:

" HABIB is no longer in H-PRG... I enjoyed his works. But it was his decision. "

Habib, in case you didn't realise, also did some of the portraits in the Personnel section of this site. Hopefully he'll still be around to do more graphics when we need them... if we ask politely, of coz <g>

Got a mail late last night from Pol of Phantasy that he's updated the BeerEver 2e3 page. Several scans have been added, including info-notices, bartabs, and some packing info from Zilog.

Mike of ZeroTeam fired off a note that the ZeroTeam website has been updated. If you've not been here before, it takes the novel approach of being a text-only webpage. Heh, I just wonder when they'll give in and release a heavily flashed page :]
Anyway, you'll doubtless want to know what's changed, but it's all detailed on the mainpage.
One thing I did notice was a project of Faster^TNL. Named High Technologies (note the site isn't working yet), it's essentially planned to be a source-archive for the ZX Spectrum. Think along the lines of SourceForge, but Speccy-based. Graphics-routines, Music-players, math-code... you get the idea. Add to that documentation on hardware, history, etc, and you end up with a top-notch site.
Now we just have to wait for the site to appear! Until then you can download some information from the ZeroTeam website, in the messages section.

There's been an update on DB's Speccy4Ever site, this time adding a whole new section, titled "Built In Speccy". Here you can find various texts and diagrams for Speccy "things". Included in the list so far are details of Joystick interfaces, and the classic ACB-Stereo diagram, along with a couple links to other projects.

Davide Barlotti has certainly been busy. The latest update to Speccy4Ever's ROMpage is a bunch of 16 (16!) ROMs, all for the same thing! Okay there's more to it than that, but it's a heap of stuff to download. The ROMs can be found in the Scorpion section of the page.

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Right, that's that done. I'm tired, and I'm going to be away for the weekend, so I'll see ya next week.

Heard from bcass that he's made an update over at Project-AY. According to WOS, where the news was also reported, there are 118 new game-tunes, and 8 new demotunes.

Not quite demo-related, but I liked the film, so I think it deserves a mention.
There was a post on speccy.scenews that Fenomen are to release a Spectrum game based on the film "The Matrix". I'll leave you to read the post yourselves... so go do it.
On a side-note, I have the "Matrix-phone"... again, not even Speccy-related, but it's sooo kewl ;]

There's been an update of the ROMs over at Speccy4Ever. Here's what the new additions are:

• Opus Discovery 2.1
• Quick Commander 2.6
• Plus3e EIDE interface ROM
• Plus4 48k ROM (you can figure this one out for yourself)
• ProfROM (for Scorpion)
• General Sound 1.04 (for Scorpion)

Also, there's the addition of screenshots for some of the ROMs, a useful feature for playing "Spot That ROM". Seriously, it can help with identifying ROMs, or can just be interesting for the curious/seriously geeky (you can guess which one I am <g>). Thanks to Davide Barlotti for the news.

Missed a couple new posts at Demo or Die, so I'll mention them both now:

• Recursive Plasma by Wolf of Scene Team - This basically covers the code for creating Plasma effects, but it's all written in C for the PeeCee (natch). Could be useful for reference, tho'.
• Advice by Mongol of The Legacy - This looks a bit more useful, covering the code to produce quick, efficient SQRT functions. I've not checked the code thoroughly, but tables seems the way to go.

Demo or Die looks like becoming a very useful resource for demomakers and demoviewers alike. Keep an eye on this one.

For those who're wondering about the headline, it's a quote from The Doors (as used in the PeeCee demo Verses by Electro Motive Force). And it's strangely appropriate, as I spotted a post on X-Agons Message Board from Minisoft. He's pointing people to the download of the latest version of Doors, the filesystem for the Spectrum. But more importantly, he mentioned that the Doors website will soon be relocated at http://d2k.boom.ru/. So there's a site to watch out for.