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Hi Rich! Nice hearing from you! Yes Rich I have been able to utilize OS/2 abilities in so many different ways. I have been able to find ways to tweak OS/2 to make it just a little more snappier environment and just having alot of fun. You probably saw my earlier notes on the setting to make the Animator Pro run. There are so many different ways you can run it that it's mind boggleing. The best thing is that you don't have to reboot to try different settings. What I like best is the way I can have a Targa drive loading in one single Dos session, then run Animator Pro, do some animating of all the effects that I want. If I have a number of flc flies that needs to be join together to become one big huge file, that's when I selected the Targa screen from the Animator resolution setting and the Animator Pro will display from my separate monitor from the Targa card. There I will render the all the join flc file together. While rendering, I can control esc and bring to Workplace shell back on the main VGA display to do something like run Prodigy,edit a scrip file for the animating of events etc. , while the background rendering takes place. Maybe even do a image conversion with the convert utility program while waiting to the render to finish. There nothing like being able to get two or things done at once. Most of the rendering I done, have been with Animator Pro. However I have experimented with POV 2.0 retracing for 3D rendering. I am planning to get 3D Studio to have full 3D rendering and Animating capability for the things that I want to do later on this year. Integrate well with Animator Pro, DPMI compliment and Autodesk throws everything but the kitchen sink in there with a CD rom disk full many textures images and other goodies. I saw Topas at NCGA show here a few years ago. I was really impress with the wine bottle demo they gave, really nice. This is a powerful package with modeling feature that was pretty easy to use. I know this kind of off the topic but I have switch to Golden Commpass and i'll tell you this program is great. I really flies and it has save me on online charges. So, are you considering on switching your 3D packages? I thought, with the packages you have which are pretty nice, you would have upgraded them.But it's nice to try something different too since there are more package that are coming from newer player, who are joining the PC arena. Well i'm glad you stop by. I'm just here offering a helping hand. Take care Bob (Using Goden Commpass and OS/2 2.1)