To get away from NC studio then it depends on what electronics are inside the control box and you may need some hardware, most likely just a breakout board.
Either Mach3 or Linux CNC could be used so with a little luck it may just mean a BOB change.? Mach3 is my prefered choice.

Cutting area is the extents the machine will move or just less and Bed size is the total area of bed frame or just less. This is why Cutting area is stated rather than Bed size because they can't possibly be the same without special measures being taken with original machine design. On standard machine the Bed is always larger than actual cutting area.