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>> I thought it is basically a function of the AVI format. And while with "fast enough" hardware you can paint by frame, on "slow enough" hardware AVI playback will favor sound over image – resulting in dropped frames. With that caveat, your comments seem quite true. << yes. using AStudio on a 386/16 with 8MB RAM makes this process a nuisance. <gggg> <dodging your tomatoes while throwing my own> yeah… there are numerous limitations that arrise without adequate resources hardwares and optimizations. 9/10 TGA series problems stem from either alpha weirdness or file size. admittedly, all our current animation goes out using AniPro on DOS and PharLap in 128MB scripted segments (good ol loadflic/freeflic) -dave