On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 huolong@arcor.de wrote:

hi list,

i first thought on making the tutorial/manual only for windows, but as the chapter-C will cover the usage of Pd (will be huge) and that is allmost 100% compatible with any OS, so i thought i make the install and launch chapter also for linux and osx.

for starters, i could use some help on defining the "minimum requirements" for Pd. please correct these points where you can:

Microsoft Windows

• Windows 98 (i don't think we need to mention win95)
• 300 Mhz (if someone can test this, let me know if it's too slow)
• 64 mb ram (should be enough)
• 20 mb free on harddisk (maybe we could spare this point)
• TCP/IP Protocol
• Audio card (optional: for audio input/output)
• MIDI card/device (optional: for MIDI input/output)
• OpenGl compatible graphic card (optional: for GEM)
• Video card/device (optional: for GEM, video input/output)

well, it's not quite logical to mention that multimedia devices are "optional" for Pd, but you can use Pd for "normal" programming too...

I've run a Pd patch which controlled 14 samples on a Pentium 133 running Win2k and a Mac 8600 with a 250 MHz 604e running Linux. While you can't do a lot on those old machines, they are definitely usable for some things.

Macintosh OSX

• osx version ?
• ? mhz
• ? mb ram
• ? mb free on harddisk
• TCP/IP Protocol
• ?

The current installer works on >= 10.2, but you could probably get Pd running on any version of MacOS X by compiling it yourself.

GNU/Linux

• hardware same as windows ?
• depencies ?
• gcc version ?
• kernel issues ?
• ?

If Pd ran on Win2k on a P-133, then I am sure it would work using Linux on the same machine.

.hc

IRIX (do we need this?)

• ?

question: Pd does audio signal processing even if you don't have an audio card ? (just input and output are not available ?)

Yes, you could process and generate sound files without a soundcard.

.hc

thanx -andre ps. as usual, you can mail me direct at huolong@arcor.de

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Hallo, huolong@arcor.de hat gesagt: // huolong@arcor.de wrote:

hi list,

i first thought on making the tutorial/manual only for windows, but as the chapter-C will cover the usage of Pd (will be huge) and that is allmost 100% compatible with any OS, so i thought i make the install and launch chapter also for linux and osx.

for starters, i could use some help on defining the "minimum requirements" for Pd. please correct these points where you can:

Microsoft Windows

• Windows 98 (i don't think we need to mention win95)
• 300 Mhz (if someone can test this, let me know if it's too slow)
• 64 mb ram (should be enough)

I think, even 32 MB is enough, at least on Linux.

• 20 mb free on harddisk (maybe we could spare this point)
• TCP/IP Protocol
• Audio card (optional: for audio input/output)
• MIDI card/device (optional: for MIDI input/output)
• OpenGl compatible graphic card (optional: for GEM)
• Video card/device (optional: for GEM, video input/output)

well, it's not quite logical to mention that multimedia devices are "optional" for Pd, but you can use Pd for "normal" programming too... GNU/Linux

• hardware same as windows ?
• depencies ?
• gcc version ?
• kernel issues ?
• ?

Make that for Linux:

Hardware could be less on Linux, as it can generally be configured more lean.

X-Server (Xfree86) (optional, but highly recommended) Tcl/Tk (dito)

ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__