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Richard, You have a misconception about Agnus. Agnus has 0 ram. Depending on what version of Agnus it can address x amount of ram, known as chip ram. In your 500, you've got 512k of ram on the motherboard of your computer that is set aside specifically as chip ram (the ram that Agnus can address). If you get a 1M Agnus, make small modifications to your motherboard, you will then be able to use the 512k on the belly card as chip ram. If you want to eliminate hires flicker you will need a scan doubler of some sort (2 or 3 have already been recommended to you) and a monitor that is capable of supporting a 31.5KHz scan rate. Had you decided to go with the 1200 you'd have gotten 2M chip ram and a flickerless hires display as part of the AGA chipset (and all the other color resolution and display mode enhancements of AGA). Add some fast ram to the 1200 and it's nearly as fast as an A3000 (A1200 uses an EC020, no MMU, so no added wait state for the MMU that the 3000's 030 has). -sja