CompuServe Messages

Steve, Depending on what you want to do it can go from on-line shareware to as much as you want to spend. The system comes with an application called "Showcase" which is a combo- WP using Post-Script fonts and which includes audio and Video applications to do sound and MIDI stuff/ and an Application called Media Mosaic, which has a real time capture in 24BIT with up to 1280X1024 in True Color, there is also a video(Movie) builder which produces .IMS files that can be run in real time on the monitor or through a Video Card. There are severl "film" players as well as tools for editing .IMS files. Of course you can do animations with this system. There are a fair number of exceptional Art and media applications that run in the 1 to 2 K price range. There are several new animation packages that produce commerical professional animations (3D) in the 3 to 12 K range. The real power is in the speed and the fact that the basic system has all the day to day tools you need and graphics cards are very inexpensive, even compaired to the AMIGA world. That and the fact that when you boot the system for the first time you are also compatable with nearily all high end systems in use today. Lee