@Hadron = Apple is only close-fisted against 3rd party development tools on the iPod/phone.
Yes I mean to say for iPod/phone development, sorry.

There is quite a large market for 2d games still, in my opinion.
Agreed.

I think I'll fiddle around with this engine some time tonight,
Sweet, thanks... I appreciate the feedback.

but personally I'm really just waiting for SDL 1.3 to be released (because it'll have hardware acceleration without accessing OGL directly), and is already cross platform.
Oooohhh.... thanks for the info. I will look into SDL 1.3.