Mach 3 behaving badly?

[John S]

Don't hold your breath with Mach4. It's been out four plus years and still not a release candidate. Without an external controller like CS Labs, Pokeys, Hicon etc it can't stand on its own and so far all the effort is going Pokeys way and even this way behind. Unless you have a system where software and hardware is under the same roof you will have support problems.
Mach3 could do it with the parallel port as it was all in Art's domain but then the rot set I'm with the G-Rex and original smooth stepper. The current smooth stepper is weeks away from threading but it's the same weeks away that they quoted 4 years ago.

[Davek0974]

Don't hold your breath with Mach4.

Yeah, it was just a passing thought really. I'm still using Mach3 on two other machines so adding a new flavour to the mix would not aid my learning curve i think.

;)

[Ger21]

That's why I'm moving to UCCNC....
I bought a Mach4 license two years ago, but haven't even looked at it in over a year. Probably another 4-5 years until it's completely finished. Maybe...

[Davek0974]

Yeah, linuxcnc not an option here I'm afraid - too much £££ in the CSMIO controller and they don't support Linux