Why don't you start a scenario "The Ultimate Marathon" the way it should have been, and ask Loren and crew to implement features that would be needed for this scenario?
: Aleph1 has come a long way. The smoothed textures and GL rendering are good
: things. But do we only want to preserve the original game, even though we
: would all admit that it is an incomplete game? Why not complete the game
: instead of enhancing its' long unfinished state? We need to make the dream
: a reality. Wouldn't that be a better thing?