Sorry for the silence.  I've been working pretty hard.  I'm close to 75% of the way done with the renders.  There's about 200 more left to do.  I've also got 3 animations to do.  I'm coding the game as I render.  Double duty and all that.  I've play a rough cut of the update and it's looking pretty good.  I'm aiming for this weekend to release the 0.9b update to my SubscriberStar subs but it'll most likely be early next week.  The free public release will come out roughly a week later.  We're getting close.  Stay tuned...