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If they were rendered on a 2000, I would guess those were really HAM6 ANIMs you were seeing.. especially for artifacts to be noticable in an animation. I have made some more concise ANIM tests and will be posting a set of benchmark ANIM files for others to compare. Here is what I have so far: 2color 16color 256color A3000 : 49 25 N/A A4000 : 53 49 26 Explanation: Results are in frames per second. Source ANIMs are 59 frames (looping) of identical scenes rendered in Imagine, differing in color depth only; Image dimensions are 640×400. Test times included 10 loops with 0 milliseconds between frames _and_ loading time from hard disk; Fps was calculated as : 590 frames / elapsed seconds. ANIM player was Viewtek 1.03, available here on CIS, used strictly in video interlace (15KHz). Times for deinterlaced (31KHz) video were the same for 2 & 16 colors and 17 fps for 256 colors. Notes: Two factors on the A4000 that can severely affect ANIM playback are the CPU caches and scan rate (deinterlacing). I suspect that the supplied RAM in the A4000 is not as fast as it could be (just what _is_ the recommended DRAM speed for top performance on a 25MHz 68040?); I have not opened up my machine but a support tech says the RAM is probably 80ns (yech!). From the CPU benchmarks I have, I seem to be missing about 5 MIPS. -Chris