Hi folks, Quite an interesting aray of questions thesedays. I'll take some time to answer these questions in a detailed fashion: * Cleaning mode: Yes, Apex sort of has "cleaning mode" - in fact, all BN family has them. The trick is what JD has mentioned - going to Support Information Mode, then pressing X for Exercise. This allows BN to raise pins on the braille display, which is useful for cleaning the display and checking for display problems. Besides exercising the display, Support Information Mode has useful commands such as checking battery status, formatting SD cards and so on. For more info regarding this area, you might want to check out an extensive tour written by one of our members on a site. * Utilities: As of now, the programs Alex wrote is the most advanced development we (the user programmers) can do on Apex and other BN family. The last step we need is a set of development tools to be released for KeySoft so we can write games and other utilities for people (I have several of those in mind as future projects). Z-code games are useful, but since the interpreter was created for games, I see no "real" use for it except running programs written in a special language. * Cleaning: I personally use a dry cloth when cleaning the unit - especially the display pins. Hope this helps. Cheers, Joseph
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