IMO, what Bryce needs more than anything, and ASAP, is OpenGL rendering. Painful that with GPUs with dozens or even hundreds of sub processors, we're still rendering in slow motion. It would not require a complete rewrite just to do the rendering in OpenGL. Next on the list would be 64 bit. After that, ability to see more than 8 CPUs (particularly with Intel i9 and 18 core CPUs plus hyperthreasing now available). General updates all around would be next on my list. And Mac compatibility would be nice.

Daz needs to do the right thing here. Either restart development, sell it at a fire sale price to a company that will continue development, or make its code open source, so that developers who are also Bryce users can upgrade the code. Leaving it on a shelf as abandoneware is downright offensive to Daz' customers. It is, if I may coin a term, a "crime against software". It's completely indefensible.