honest!!!
chriss, honest man--i was on the small team that hacked the 808ex opsys, i was actually the first person to ever really get it to work.
i, like you, assumed that the new dsp stuff wouldnt work, but it surprisingly does. a rumor went around that the vocoder and some of the other dsp stuff didnt work, but that was just because nobody had the manual at first, and we couldnt figure out how to engage it 8> - and it also was a pleasant surprise to us that the interface is identical in every way. 8>
but, of course, you dont get the 250 meg zip disk upgrade for free 8``<