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If a board priced where the UofL baord is can't edge out a HAM-E, then it's junk. :^) yes, I'm always such a CBM pessimist. I've been involved with Amiga development since before the machine hit the stores in Oct '85. CBM hasn't let me down yet in my (low) expectations. They have yet to make any reasonable approach to the marketplace. The technical people are wonderful, but I'd not shed a tear if the entire marketing group was lined up and shot. Unix rots – it's overcomplex, aged beyond belief, cryptic, most implementations are poor multitaskers, VERY few are what you'd call a "real-time" operating system (giving nod to Modcomp), and as such, I'd not want them in my computer. Too many things you can't do without real time capabilties. It needs a real user interface, instead of the abuser interface (awk, indeed :^) it has. And yes, I know about xwindows and etc; fine – let me know when all Unix systems have xwindows, and I'll be glad to agree it's moved as far forward as 1985. Regarding the UofL board in general – an FC24 blows it out of the water, bodily. Any of the DMI Resolver, the PP&S Rambrandt, or the GVP wowzer board make it look old tech, which it is; note that while the DMI Resolver is an 8 bitplane 32010 based display (like the UofL), it has software, unlike the UofL – although there are good odds that the SAGE lib may work with it, in which case it will be come useful. In any case, DMI is coming with a 24 bit display, and that WILL blow the UofL out in a big way (32020 driven). The HAM-E is a $300 add-on for any Amiga. As such, it's great. We never said it was anything else, just that it's good at what it does. And it is. :^) It's better than anything anywhere NEAR it's price class. In the meantime, Black Belt has support software for the FC24, the stock Amiga, and the HAM-E; we're coming with software for the DMI resolver and the PP&S Rambrandt, and some other stuff is cooking beyond that. The only thing I have to say about the UofL that's positive is that DMI's SAGE [ MORE ]