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The
official Simulator005 download-page
The
current
release-number is
6
(07 Oct 2002)
See
the release history
to find out more about differences between releases, if you
have an old one. Please do upgrade this time.
For easiest upgrading
you only need to substitute the simulator binary in any existing
simulators folder, as release 6 has preferences compatible
to release 5.
Macintosh
OS:
If
your browser does not automatically decode BinHex, you may
get a free decoder from Aladdin.
Zip files are best decoded with the shareware ZipIt.
PowerPC
MacOS 9 or less
Download SelfExtractingArchive
(442 KB, sea.hqx) or easy
(870KB, BinHex)
Carbon
release
Download SelfExtractingArchive
(409 KB, sea.hqx) or easy
(831KB, BinHex)
FAT
release
Download SelfExtractingArchive
(680KB, sea.hqx) or easy
(1.6MB, BinHex)
68K
Processor
Download SelfExtractingArchive
(376 KB, sea.hqx) or easy
(779KB, BinHex)
If you have
any trouble at all to download your preferred file, then do
contact us; the transition to the new server may have led
to issues here.
Windows
+ GUI:
32bit Console
release, tested under
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows
XP
Download
easy
(793 KB, raw binary) or Zip
(276 KB)
If
you can not yet decode Zip files, download a free version
of powerarchiver.
To check the percentage of CPU-time used by the simulator
on Windows 95/98, install Microsofts WinTop (zip-file,
readme,
screenshot)
Michael Reich (Zahmekoses
of Rechenkraft.de) has released a small nice graphical
user interface for the semi-automated Windows versions
of Simulator005. It can be downloaded
here (there is an english translation on the german site).
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General
Caution for Computer Use:
Do not
run your computer at all (much less continously for evolution@home),
when ...
- weather is too
hot and you have no appropriate cooling system.
- you have no
appropriate backup system. The cheapest way to do that nowadays
is to buy an extra hard disk drive (most Gigabytes for your
money). Then copy your data in regular intervalls to that
hard disk.
- Be cautious,
if you use a notebook. Some notebook computers are not designed
for prolonged, uninterrupted computations.
How
to get the program
Just select the link marked with "easy"for
your operating system. Then your browser should do the rest
automatically. Current browsers on the Mac automatically decode
the BinHex file, while current browsers under Windows save
the raw binary directly in executable form. Use the compressed
versions, if you have the correct tool at hand only.
How
to get the run-files needed to start a simulation
Go to the run-files
page .
If
you want to check integrity of the simulators binary,
then email us the CodeSecurityCheckSums computed
directly after the start of the simulator.
You may want to do that if you suspect transmission errors,
virus infections or other third party modifications. These
checksums are computed only, if the filename of the simulator
can be recognized by its code. If this is not the case,
a corresponding file is generated.
Download
time estimates for modem users
modern 56k modem: about 2.4 minutes for 1024 KB
= 1 MB
older 28.8k modem: about 4.8 minutes for 1024 KB = 1 MB
very old 14.4k modem: about 9.5 minutes for 1024 KB = 1 MB
System requirements
All
releases require a minimum of about 2 MB RAM (or more, depending
on the run-files you select) and a minimum of about 2 MB diskspace
(or more, depending on the length of your run-files and on
the settings you select). You currently need either a MacOS
or Windows95 or newer, if you want to participate. If your
CPU can run MacOS 7 or Windows 95 it can run simulations.
However, check your performance (see log-file of the simulator),
as old CPUs can be up to 1000 times slower than a modern counterpart.
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