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Scott: The main reason I got the AMAX was to have compatibility with the editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine. He creates the written portion of each issue on a MAC (it is a 12 inch lp with a dozen new songs, plus a printed b&w magazine with articles, the lyrics to the songs and bios on the writer/performers). I have the mailing lists etc. on my Amiga. Eventually we hope to have a real office (right now it's in my basement) and we wanted to check out a way to have a single computer which would handle all the various software we might use. It looks like an Amiga with AMAX and a bridge will do the trick, taking up the least amount of room (space costs a lot here in NYC) and the least total expense. So, my use of the AMAX is pretty rudimentary. Since MAC software is so expensive, I haven't bought much. Also, since my primary interests are graphics, animation, sound, music, and "multimedia", the Amiga is perfect for me. I especially like the ability to multitask and do interprocess control and communication. I do a lot with simple PD and shareware utilities multitasked, use AREXX some, scripit more (since most PD/shareware stuff doen't have a native AREXX port). I've been playing around with CanDo quite a bit recently (which does support AREXX), and have done some very interesting things with The_Director. BTW, you might want to take a look at AniMagic, if you are into interesting wipes and disolves, and The Art Department. These two combined have created some very impressive anims which I have then integrated into longer presentations with TheDirector. TAD allows you to very easily match up palettes between graphics, and does an incredible job converting hi-res graphics into lo-res ones. For example, I did my company logo using a granite color font in DeluxePaint III in hi-res interlaced. Using this in its original form in Animagic created slow anims. Using TAD, I converted it into a lo-res interlaced graphic, and it sill looked great! (No apparent jaggies, etc.) In lo-res, Animagic created a very smooth, [ MORE ]