CompuServe Messages

Betty, EGS is an "extended graphics system" for the Amiga. It is basicly an alternate windowing system. It usually is used in conjunction with graphics boards but can be run on the ECS or AGA chip set. It does have some nice built-in features like tear off menus. It also has a Workbench emulation so with a graphics board you can have 256 colors on your 2000 or 3000. There are at least two GREAT programs written to take advantage of the EGS system. The first is a program called EGSTV. If you have a vlab digitizer and a graphics board, you will throw the orginal software away. It truly is a great interface. The other program is called EGSphotoalbum. Thumbnail snap shots of your artwork in 24 bit color. It also is a very good peice of work. Both are shareware and can be found in the Amiga Art forum. They aren't mine but I own and use them both. There is a German program from DTM for animation in the EGS system that are very good if you can read German. It is called PICaccess. Hope that explains it somewhat. Randy (o\_/o) {-I-}