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Steve, Just to hop in here. I have a 486 DX66, with an ATI Ultra Pro and 16mb ram. My associate conducted a number of experiments to test performance for certain multi-media effects between this system, my amiga 4000 and (somebody else's) MAC. There are a number of effects – for instance, moving complex images across a screen – that appear to be far more professionally achievable on the AMIGA than the IBM or even MAC. I compared similar types of effects using ASTOUND, COMPEL, and CHARISMA in IBM and DIRECTOR (mac) versus SCALA and MEDIA POINT. You can achieve these effects in IBM/MAC but I think there is some rendering time involved, e.g., construction of an AVI/QUICK TIME file. At least thats what my experiments showed. Anyways, I would be very interested in comments on this, as it proved to be a critical reason why I purchased the AMIGA (I want to produce multi-media). Now that the AMIGA's future is uncertain, I want to again see if high quality smooth movement of complex images are possible in IBM/MAC in real time. (Maybe with another video board).. look forward to hearing from you all out there.