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>>> True color is about the only advantage my PC has over the Amiga I >> sold. >>The other advantage is the speed. A 486-66 is just faster than a 68040 >>at 33 mHz. And if you can afford a 586 (Pentium) you gonna fly twice as >>fast. -David PMJI: Well, speed is a PC advantage for some stuff, but not necessarily graphical stuff. For animation work, especially not. Check out the December COMPUTE column on Video for Windows, where the guy basically says it's no go for most video, though still-frame grabbing works pretty well. Even with a maxed out 486 and local bus video, the frame rates just aren't sufficient, yet. And, for quirky architectural reasons, some gear won't work in systems with more than 8 megabytes of RAM. I've seen 3D CGI animations on 486s running jerkily in little windows, and am amused that my lowly, '030-based A2000 can outrun them and in full screen. All of which is not to knock the PC environment generally; I have a PC and they are advancing rapidly (and if you've got the bucks, you can advance with them). But for animation work, I think the Amiga is still boss for most purposes. When MPEG is firmly entrenched on the Amiga and all other platforms, taking over from Quicktime, Indeo, Video for Windows, et. al., that advantage probably will be gone. — Ron Legro from Milwaukee via AUTOPILOT