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Vance, Thanks for answering so quickly. I had considered both the EGS systems and the Retina & Picasso boards but I was attracted by both the price and the quality of software that comes with OpalVision. From what I understand the only package that comes near to the features of OpalPaint is TVPaint but TVPaint would be an additional $300 or so and, as I understand it, lacks some key features. Unfortunately, I can't really afford to go for extra s/w. I believe the paint s/w that is bundled with the other boards is less than full-featured as well although they do have some nice features such as hires displays (which I couldn't use on my 1942 anyway). The Retina & Picasso are attractive because of the support for Emplant and the WorkBench and mode promotion but what I really need is good production s/w, today. EGS is has great potential but I wonder if that potential will ever be realised. BTW, do you know if any of those other boards have composite or S-Video out? I would like to hear any other comments that you have. Thanks, Andrew