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<continuation> many of which can use sound simultaneously with the animations. There are a number of good music programs, and the machine can support MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), which can let you control external synthesizers from the computer to let you have many, many voices (virtually as many as you can afford to buy). I use it for all of the above, and bought it for the music and graphics. After I had it, I found it to be the most flexible, most powerful, and most fun computer I have ever worked with. By all means get one. Finally, the best "intermediate" level configuration for an Amiga 500 is two disk drives and a full meg of RAM. that would probably take your all-in purchase price to about $1,100. If you can't handle that, I would strongly recommend that the extra drive, and extra half meg of ram be the first things you add to the system (in that order). & y'all come back here with any questions (you will probably have some. Amy is different, and can be confusing at first, even if you hav eused other computers. You can get up the learning curve pretty quickly though, and have gobs of fun.) Ray Lewis