SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS


Macintosh users:
Our latest version (6.0) is now fully OSX native. (Mac OS9 users can request the 5.996 version).

Windows users:
Our system will run on Windows 2000 and XP with at least 256 MB of RAM. Sound cards are necessary to hear the effects (but are not necessary for module operation). (Older versions of Windows can request the 5.996 version of Space Update)

WE DO NOT SUPPORT WINDOWS VISTA AT THIS TIME !

For All users:
The higher the speed processor and the more memory, the better your experience will be! The first time you install Space Update, a high-speed internet is essential to download the sky movies, if you wish a different latitude or year from the one on the disk. Both Earth Update and Space Update use the internet to bring down the latest images... but are still extremely valuable without one!

SPACE UPDATE
You need 450 MB of free hard disk space for all of SPACE UPDATE, or 50-140 MB free if you only wish to show one of the modules (Sky Tonight is the largest because of the skyview movies included). Monitor requirements are 800x600 pixels, with 16-bit color (thousands of colors). No keyboard is necessary for the display - only a trackball or trackpad and clicker.

EARTH UPDATE
You need 450 MB of free hard disk space for all of EARTH UPDATE, or 50-120 MB free if you only wish to install one of the spheres. Monitor requirements are 800x600 pixels, with 16-bit color (thousands of colors). No keyboard is necessary for the display - only a trackball or trackpad and clicker.



 


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The "Public Connection": is an outreach arm of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science [ Project Director: Patricia Reiff ].
This project is funded by NASA as part of the Earth Science Information Partners.
The project was originally part of NASA/Goddard's Digital Library Technology Project, and now is part of the Learning Technologies Program.

ACCESSED BY connect@space.rice.edu UPDATED: 12-16-05