Well, it came straight to us from Goober, not Blitz Research. I'm sure there was a misunderstanding in the email you got, Goober, because it would be highly illogical to discontinue work in Blitz3D. Mark's put plenty of work into Maplet and talked about getting B3D upgraded to DX9 (though this will understandably take some time) and it seems that in order to accept the "vis" support Mark's working on in Maplet, B3D will need another update anyway!!