I know it's been a long while but v1.8 has finally been released!

Updates:

• FULLY PLAYABLE  It is possible to play the game up to the end at which point instead of showing credits the game will crash.  So still a little bit left to work on there
• Rewritten panorama reduces memory usage to 1/3 and CPU/GPU utilization to a small fraction of before
• Tons of memory leak fixes
• Gameplay fixes
• The New and Continue buttons at the title screen now function as expected. 
  • New will erase the current save and start the game over
  • Continue will load the last autosave

Still more to fix and more to come.  Stay tuned!