Considering all the functionality, the shareware fee is pretty reasonable, IMHO. The file manager itself is one of the better utilities since it can copy files to emulator disks. If you don't register, you can still make use of this, just remember to use a copy of the files since Oasis will only move in the unregistered version. I can think of several other reasons. Up to 1 meg of aux ram, serial I/O for printing and comm. in fact I have used the printing to output several manuals to a windows system called clickbook which makes real booklets from multipage texts. The documents were formatted in Appleworks as well as printed from it. There is also slot configuration, the ability to use more than 2 hard disks and/or floppies. Built in clock and mouse support. Customize text screen font and colors. It supports TTF fonts but they don't seem to be the best method. I would say it now has full screen support, but it requires Direct Draw 3 which is very hard to find. I have not even mentioned the cross platform support. It allows you to link a disk to/from your Apple and the PC (slink). Serve a disk to a IIe (requires a motherboard joystick connection) and of course, real-time serial connection between Apple II and emulator. Ok, I'll quit trying to sell it now. After all, I use both myself. ApplePC is used mainly for games and on my older laptop which is rather slow. My favorite II usage is programming, in this case, ApplePC has a keyboard bug which becomes very noticeable. As far as I can tell, the keyboard routine will occasionally return the last key typed instead of the current key press and I think it is probably a bug in the keyboard repeat routines. It is random in occurrence and is more active on my laptop than on my desktop system. So some of it may be hardware related. -- Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful or at least interesting. Phoenyx, Apple2 user since March 1984 Links to Phoenyx's pages: preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2 alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2