Current CNC options for Lathes with encoders?

Not sure where is the bast place to ask as most of the lists I frequent
for CNC are specific to a single option. I've got an Orac and a Compact8
Lathe both of which are running nicely from the Mach3 Mill computer, but
as yet nothing is hooked up to the encoder and index pulse signals.

I was going down the path of Eding USBCNC, but the current interface
boards are a lot more expensive than the original USB boards. PlanetCNC
offers a similar board to the earlier Eding one and prices look good
even adding the extra bit for the software licence. The Pokeys boards
look nice price wise, but I'm not sold on Mach4 having been using Mach3
on the mill for years. Does any other software take advantage of the
Pokeys hardware? Then we get back to LinuxCNC which I keep downloading
but never getting much further along than that despite having a couple
of other interfaces that are getting good responses about.

Nothing stands out as the ideal solution for a lathe setup like Mach3 is
for the mill, or am I missing something?

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