>it's not a good use of the kernel

True, but it's by far the easiest place for us to do things -- doesn't require a sluggish serial link or finicky download programs, and anyone doing drive upgrades probably already knows how to load a hijack kernel, or already has one loaded and so can just click on "Upgrade Hijack" in JEmplode.

And with the current builder broken (doesn't work for 80GB drives on Mk1, and possibly Mk2 players(?)), we're just kicking the can thinking about alternatives.

A nice v3.0 beta with a modern builder would be a good alternative! But then, it's probably a Windows-centric GUI again, so that doesn't help a lot of us with Linux, MacOS, etc.. Unless you folks have discovered Java in the interim (?)

Cheers