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Ok. First, Imagemaster offers far more extensive, and higher quality, support of the HAM-E unit than AdPro does, which is all ASDG has to offer at this time. Not surprising, since we invented 8-bit HAM techniques. Image Professional, which is the ultimate support for the HAM-E, is not available without the gate. Period. As for you paying for a non-gate IP, we estimate development costs at about $200/hour, including all overhead; losses due to theft are not something you can calculate until after they happen, even then you're WAY on the conservative side when you count only known occurances. I rather doubt you could or would be willing to afford such an effort, it would be well into four figures. A 10m system IS a minimal system for what you're trying to do, in my opinion; I use a 30+ MB system and consider that adequate, not excessive, for the type of operations you're after; my opinion only, but based on a lot of experience with gfx ops. Plus, AdPro is absolutely terrible at memory management; it's a hog, plain and simple, with no real tiem allocation capabilities so you have to muck about with it's icon or some such thing to get it squared away about what it is "allowed" to have. This was a design decision by ASDG, and good or bad, the effect it has on YOU is making your system fit the definition of a minimum one. Imagemaster will return ALL it's image memory when you kill all the images it's holding, and likewise Image Pro. It's NOT your bottleneck. Your bottleneck is RAM, period. In my opinion. No one lied. There is no copy protection. Copy the software all you want. It can be copied, it just can't be stolen (copied and used away from a HAM-E). No one is lying; you're just being hysterical. It would do you VERY well to keep in mind that the HAM-E is a long-ago discontinued product, not a current one, and that we have EVERY right to do whatever we want with the software support. Very few customers act as you are now, <continued>