A minor bugfix release of ESXDOS is now available. It basically fixes a small bug so now people who don't want to flash their DivIDE with ESXDOS can now try it in MAPRAM mode. This means that once the flasher has run, you can reset and use ESXDOS until the next power off. When you power on again, your old firmware will start up. Easy. Get it here!

After many people thought it was just vapourware, Papaya Dezign have finally released a public beta of their much awaited firmware for the DivIDE interface. Go get it here! If you plan to use it, you should check the readme file in the zip. Enjoy :)

Turkish Scene's only demoscene party 7Dx held at Istanbul last week. Newly formed (Turkey's first zx demo group) Ret participated the Demo Compo along with four others (for PC). Demo named "Searching for the roots" placed 3rd. You can download and try it from 7d9 party website.

7d9 Demo Compo Results Page

Ret is a new group and still experimenting on Zx Spectrum to find their way and look forward for your feedback , positive or negative. You can also find the first demo of ret at pouet archive.

First batch of JHCon 2009 photos by TDM/H-PRG is here. Photos from Factor6 are here.

Just a quick pointer to downloads of ZX81 BASIC demo compo entries from JHCon 2009. They are on Pouet or in all-in-one zip file here.

JHCon party is on and you can watch some ugly faces at Pardal's site, as usually :) There are plenty of Spectrums, many ZX81s and lot of fun. The competition 'Guess a game' is ready and there will be shown ZX81 1kB Basic demo compo entries today. So, that is. Speccy rulez.

The latest Mister Beep's release is a nice music collection with eight 8channel beeper tracks made in ZX-7 editor. Since this editor has never had a compiler, this is the first demo in history containing this kind of music routine. So plug your MIC to the HiFi and enjoy. But before, get it here first :)

We managed to make a small compo for JHCon party in December. Everything you need is an unexpanded Sinclair ZX81 or emulator (not a Speccy!) and little ZX81 BASIC knowledge. The conditions are simple - it must be written in BASIC, must be a demo/intro-like and the file has to be max. of 1024 bytes. Send your works to yerzmyey(at)interia(d0t)pl. The compo deadline is set to the afternoon of 12.12.2009.

Quick pointer to Forever 2010, which is taking place in Trencin from the 19th to 21st of March 2010. Good stuff.

If you live in Britain and watch BBC Four you've perhaps noticed something about the film called Micro Men (former Syntax Era). It's about rivalry on the British home computer scene of the early 80s, a fight of Clive Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong) and his former employee Chris Curry (Martin Freeman), founder of Acorn Computers. The rivalry comes to a head when the BBC announce their Computer Literacy Project, with the stated aim of putting a micro in every school in Britain. When Acorn wins the contract, Sinclair is furious, and determines to outsell the BBC Micro with his ZX Spectrum computer. A really must for all Sinclair enthusiasts!