> Wow, everyone that's taken an interest in my player (on this thread at least) has seemingly taken Squash as some sort of hostile play, or at least some sort of arrogant attempt.

I thought the same thing, and I found it kind of odd. Usually everyone is so complimentary around here about new projects like this. Well, I say keep it up! Eventually the Empeg guys are going to have to stop working on the car player, and you will have plenty of time to catch up and maybe even surpass it.