Sorry for the lack of updates, we're still moving forward. I'm testing out the new supply calculations. I think I can speed things up quite a bit. It will also allow for better supply rules down the road. I'm also changing the way that the language strings are distributed if I can by putting them into XML files isntead of DLLs. That should make life easier.
I see that VS2K8 SP1 Beta1 is now out. There are a lot of neat things coming up in SP1 that are going to make life easier. For one thing, I see that WPF interacts nicely with D3D, and the the tools for WPF are getting better.
In case you're wondering what that means, it means that a major facelift is possible when I start on the next version.