personally like the Texta video graphics generator and Turbo paint system from Dub- ner (one of the few systems with an optional digitizer). The Texta boasts 4,096 colors, hundreds of fonts, combines text and graphics on screen, 3-D animation, anti-aliasing and more. The basic configuration starts at $ 42,000 and goes up to $ 96,500 for the Turbo paint system. Now I won’t tell you that the Amiga can do everything that these pieces of equipment can. These are all specialized items that do their particular job better than the Amiga could hope to. Even if a character generator only has four fonts, it can put those four fonts on the screen better than an Amiga can. I didn’t talk about SEGs (special effects generators) that are much more expensive but can do things the Amiga can’t (right now anyway). And I purposely left out complete lists of features, so don’t complain that I didn’t tell everyone the Texta can store 20,000 pages, or whatever. But this sampling of prices shows you why people in video are so interested in the Amiga. An Amiga, straight out of the box, can’t do all of these things, but with the right equipment you can come close. And there are some things that the Amiga can do that no specialized video equipment can (like animated ray-traced images). There is a lot of confusion about the Amiga and video because the people who know about computers don’t know about video and the people who know about video don’t know about computers. Here is a simple get-rich scheme that I will give to anyone interested: Learn about both video and computers and you will be able to write your own ticket. I hope this issue will put you on the road to understanding video and the Amiga. If you are planning to put titles on your latest network mini-series or vacation videos of Disneyland, you should find something here to help. Maybe someday I’ll be able to afford some of those expensive video toys, but until I win the lottery, I have the Amiga to play with, which ought to keep me busy for a few decades, at least.