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- Greetings -
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- Welcome to "A Unique Assemblage," the CD-ROM companion to Carl Malamud's
- "A World's Fair for the Global Village," MIT Press (Cambridge: 1998).
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- If you already have your standard Internet software, installed, you
- might want to go straight to our opening sequence, which is on the
- top of this disc in the file:
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- 00-start.html
-
- If you want more details about the software required, then read on.
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- We assume you have a standard Internet web browser, compatible with
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (and up) or Netscape Navigator 3.0
- (and up).
-
- If you do not have this software, we have provided copies. If you
- are on a Macintosh, double-click on the file on the top of this
- disc which is called Macintosh Install. If you are on Windows 95
- or Windows NT, double-click on the file on the top of this disc
- which is called Windows Setup. On a Unix system, go read the
- readme.unix.txt file in the /Software directory.
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- We assume that your system has at least 8 megabytes of RAM, and
- 16 megabytes will definitely make things go smoother. We assume
- you have at least a 2x CD-ROM drive, but a 4x will make things
- go a little smoother, particularly the opening sequence.
-
- All of our software works inside of your web browser. We assume
- that your browser can handle the following features:
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- tables
- frames
- Java (version 1.02)
- Javascript (version 1.0, which is for both MSIE and Netscape)
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- We also use a variety of additional data types, which your browser
- should be able to handle. Note that even if you can't do all of these
- data types, you can still see most of the disc. Our software for
- Windows and Macintosh can support all of these:
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- Shockwave from Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave)
- RealAudio 2.0 and 3.0 from Progressive Networks (http://www.realaudio.com)
- Audio files up to 44,100 khz in .wav and .au formats
- Quicktime from Apple (http://www.quicktime.apple.com)
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- Note for Quicktime movies: some of our movies are very big, up to
- 40 megabytes each. If you are running Netscape, you might consider
- turning off caching which will make some of the screens run more
- quickly.
-
- Note for Shockwave movies: if you are running Microsoft Internet
- Explorer, it considers an attempt to read a Shockwave file from
- a local file to be "running a program." If you have Security
- turned up high in your Options, MSIE will not run the file. If
- you set your security to medium, it will ask you each time. If
- you set your security to low, the file will simply run. Don't
- forget to turn security back up before you start surfing the net.
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