User group membership is an interesting statistic. A recent issue of the NESQLUG (or New England Sinclair QL Users Group) listed 38 members, which must make them one of the largest user groups left (almost half of them did not live in New England).
I keep track of a number of MSDOS public domain programs which are available on the Internet, a more or less government sponsored network of computer users from around the country and most of the rest of the world too. Thus I was immediately interested in a notice which said that there had just been uploaded a program called JPP-B2.ZIP, described as a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K emulator. Further details were given in another file which said that the program emulates a Sinclair Spectrum 48K Z80 based computer on any PC with at least an 80386SX processor and VGA graphics. Unfortunately to use it you also need a file called “spectrum.rom” which is not included for copyright reasons. Also the program is not quite finished yet but runs over 95% of the Spectrum software which has been tested so far. For more information contact Arnt Gulbrandsen, who has an internet address of arnt@swix.ifi.unit.no.
QZX was mentioned in the April issue of Update Magazine, a very good Sinclair computer quarterly. It is interesting to note that they say that 50% of their readers have QL’s, 40% TS2068’s, 30% Z88’s, and 25% TS1000’s. Obviously many have more than one type of Sinclair.