@Shifty Geezer: Instead of a big update, Mark Sibly will release a new engine module for his upcoming language BlitzMax. It will be cased on OpenGL, and it is supposed to have the latest tech-goodies, like shaders, although the best tihng for me is that BlitzMax will be multi-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOSX). This won't be free, but I think that's logical: you paid for a Basic programming language for Windows with a bultin DirectX7-based 3D engine.