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Ken, << Wait a minute here. I started this thread to gain some recommendations about Watcom.Now I see a hint of a trend implying some need to vacate Watcom and move over to MetaWare. >> It all comes down to the debug environment. I cannot debug with printf's.. but some can. When debugging IPAS, I need a robust debugger. Metaware's debugger and Phar Lap's debugger both allow me to see my source code, call stack, watch memory locations, walk pointer chains (metaware's only), view the 386 registers, display structures, single step and set breakpoints all in a monochrome monitor while the graphics operations are being displayed on the color monitor displaying 3ds. This is why many move to the metaware platform. There are programmers who can work without a debugger and implement IPAS but I'm not one of them. jonas[adesk]