![]() They also have Art's parallel port plugin which costs $25. I have the ESS, which has a plugin that works it has been updated three times since the first version was released for MACH4. There are a hand full of plugins for motion controllers. Probably the biggest issue on MACH4 is the plugin support. The people over at newfangled solutions are working to get everything working but releases take more than than back in the days when Art was the primary developer. They claim to have rewritten about 95% of all the code in MACH4, so many bugs have been incorporated in the new version. I have been playing with it for the last year trying to get one of my machines to do all the stuff that it did under Mach3, since I really do like the screen set on MACH4 much more than Mach3. I waited a very long time for MACH4 to come out it was promised for years and finally appeared a couple years ago in a limited form. Still for the price I have been able to make some pretty cool presents and in my case it really has just been a hobby. ![]() ![]() Are there issues with MACH3 absolutely, they stopped providing updates and there are some bugs and anyone who has used it very long has all encountered those unexpected crashes along the way. Art really revolutionized the industry especially on the hobby front with his software. I have been using MACH3 for probably 15 years, shortly after it came out and it has been an amazing piece of software.
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