You will unlikely need more hardware, it is probably you have the wrong pins assigned for the motors or possibly the wrong port address. Also the steps per unit will likely not be right, depends what encoders, any reduction etc for that but think it was set at 2000 per inch so it would likely make your axis move very slow at that setting.
Up to you if you want to use a hacked licence but there are known issues which may bite you in the arse. I would suggest you delete the Mach folder and the driver from device manager and dowload and install the latest Mach and use the demo version, the limitations are few and lots of people quite happily use the demo version.
Hood