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Very few applications are written in assembler these days. Assembler is mainly used when you have to get every last bit of speed, like in state of the art game. A good C/C++ compiler should give you all the performance you need and the code will be more portable, assembler on the Amiga is totally incompatible with the PC because they use different processors. The code that does the actual calculations should be virtually the same on the Amiga and the PC. The thing that will be different is the user interface. If you are using a graphical user interface you will be using C or C++ to control Intuition on the Amiga or Windows on the PC. Intuition and Windows are very different. Concerning prospects, C and C++ skills are currently in demand. In the long term, who knows? C may well become another Cobol, everyone thinks it is out of date but there is still demand for Cobol programmers. Assembler is really only of use if you are working in specialised areas. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England