I. This software is experimental and is in a state of flux. Many functions are only accessible as shortcuts (read the help carefully!), and some icons don't do anything.
II. The User Manual is still being updated. A somewhat outdated version of it is available here.
| minimum | optimal | comments | |
| Speed | 1.5 GhZ |
3 GhZ or faster | Can run on CPUs as slow as 650MhZ, but it will be a rough ride. |
| OS | Windows 2000 & XP | should run on 98 and ME as well; Mac OSX version is also available. Contact us for a beta. You will need OSX 10.4 or later. |
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| Disk Space | 30MB | 500MB or more | Amount needed depends on how many audiovisual samples you want to use. |
| Memory | 512MB RAM | 2GB RAM or more | Make sure you are not running an antivirus monitor! They slow your system down to a crawl. |
| Sound | Any PC sound card. | Soundcard that supports ASIO. | ASIO has only been tried with MOTU2408, MOTU896HD & SoundBlaster Live!. May work for other ASIO drivers too if you are lucky. |
| Graphics | Any OpenGL graphics card (32MB RAM). | A graphics card with hardware OpenGL acceleration and lots of memory (128MB RAM or more). | Please make sure you have the latest drivers for your card! Also, you must have QuickTime 7.0.2 or later installed in order for the video features to work. |
EXPERIMENTAL; It is quite stable but many things don't work as advertised! Yet, it works!
Emonic Environment 3.023, with JRE (14.2MB). This is the version you most probably want.
Emonic Environment 3.023, without JRE (4.9MB). For advanced users only; will only work if you already have JRE1.5.x installed. Tested with JRE 1.5.0_06.
Emonic Environment 3.023 for Mac OSX 10.4 or later (4.6MB). Contact us to obtain your copy (make sure you have Java 2 SE 5.0 Release 3 or later installed).
Mobile Emonic client for Symbian phones (140kb). Point your phone browser here. Contact us for the address to which to connect once the Mobile Emonic is running on your phone.
-- If unsure about what Java version you have, please download the full version!
-- You can always check if you have the most recent version of the EE: Click "Help --> About" and compare with the version # above. Also, if the program tells you that you should update, it's probably true and you should.
-- NOTE: The program is completely self-contained; NO files are written to your Windows or any other directory apart from where you install the system. Also, it comes with an uninstaller.
-- If you already have an older version 3.xxx installed, no need to uninstall. The new version will install over the older version, while preserving your settings.
-- After downloading the install file to disk, double click it to run the install program and follow the instructions.
-- Following the installation, you may want to place the sounds, videos, and images you want to play with in the mediaCommon folder inside the directory to which you installed. A folder with that name is automatically created for you when you run the program for the first time. You can also go to File --> Preferences and click Auto-Detect Media Folders, which will locate all the suitable media on your hard drive.
-- If the video seems insufferably slow, open your preferences file (located in the 'settings' folder) and change the value of UseLightWeightOpenGL to false. Make sure you don't mess up anything else in that file or your system may not work.
-- You might find the EE Shortcuts Guide useful. For further details on installation and use, please consult the tutorial and user manual .
Questions? Critique? Suggestions?
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