Now that Sergey is back online he's busy working on updating everything possible. Including his AY-Composers List, which aims to list every composer on the AY chip. Damn, even I'm in there. This latest release updates around 140 records. Check if you're listed, and let Sergey know of any corrections. Do it. That's an order.

Very quick note as I need to go home from work... I've added another block to the left listing the last 5 ZX additions on Pouet. Note that's the latest additions, not releases... so you could sometimes see some old work listed, which ain't a bad thing.

After a long time an 8bit compo is back to Spain in this year's Euskal Encounter. You don't need to be there to submit your entry, and if you win something I'll send the prize to you :) . It's a 8 bit democompo for any 8 bit machine, download the invitro done in C64 by Level 64 at CSDB. For any question or info visit the official forum line at Retro Accion or send a mail to myself at Almightygod... See also retroeuskal.org and euskal.org/es/.

Just had some news posted by bverstee linking to his site and also to a couple videos he's posted on Youtube of his home-built MB02 Clone. I've often praised the MB02 interface as being simply lovely (for it's tape emulation and DMA and ooh, other things) so now you can see it in action here and here (the second link isn't up as I type this, but should be soon). And as the MB02 in question is un-cased, it's like pornography for you hardware types. Mmm, just check out the height of the chip in the middle of the board... oh yeah baby. That's what I'm talkin' about. *cough*

As you'll all be aware, this April marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the ZX Spectrum. If you didn't know that you probably deserve a right royal slapping. There has been talk on various forums of how to celebrate the event, but so far it seems to be just that... talk. If I'd thought ahead I could have delayed the raww.orgy by a couple months, but there you go.
Anyway in the interests of celebration, NickH (he of YS-RNRY fame) has started a thread over on WOS about what people are doing - think of it as an announcement thread, tho' mostly people will probably say "I'll have a couple beers" or something. Hey, it's WOS. Worth keeping an eye on perhaps, in case you get news of someone organising a shindig in your area. Or worth posting on if you're the orgyniser.

A quick note because my tea is nearly ready, and I'm rather hungry.
It seems that YS3, the second sequel to quality 'zine Your Sinclair, is online in blog form. There are only a few articles so far but they're quite well-written, including one about the PC200 (you remember that?).
As a side-note I spotted this news on the YS-Rock-n-Roll-Years website, and it seems that in the next couple weeks they'll have another video download ready for us, detailing 1988. Good job there.

Also mentioned in an email at the weekend was news of Retro North, a "retro gaming event" taking place in sunny, uhm... Glossop. That's the north of England, if you didn't already know. The aim of the day (which is 25th August 2007) is to play on retro games machines. Will the ZX feature? I don't know. Really I don't. But the proceeds go to the Diabetes UK charity, so it can't be all bad.

An email I had at the start of the weekend mentions that "the other" news-stand (albeit only in one shop) Retro magazine, Retro Fusion is to join up with gaming site eurogamer.net. The Fusion team are to run the sites upcoming Retro section, which will sit neatly among the PC and "console" sections. Until then the Fusion team have created a "Retro Fusion" group in the gamer's community. I didn't spot the fusion group immediately, as the community section of Eurogamer seems to consist mostly of talk about breasts. No bad thing.
I just wonder how this development will affect the news-stand (ok, gamestation-stand) print-a-zine.

Since Dunny has stated he's not going to be updating ZXSpin again (until the next important bugfix that people hassle him for), Woody has posted a new DLL file to fix some potentially major WD1793 emulation woes. The file should just be dropped into your Spin directory and TRDOS/+D emulation should be a little "safer". Grab the file here.

Just had an email from Sergey Bulba to say that he's got a new home for his AY site: bulba.untergrund.net should replace your current "at.kz" bookmarks. As well as this site-move, Sergey has released v4.2 of the TR-Songs archive. There are now around 18400 modules for your aural pleasure. I'm a tad busy at the moment so I won't even attempt to list the changes, I suggest you go download the 13Mb file and get-a-playing.