• Frequently Asked Questions
• Read Me Before Doing Anything Else!
• OpenDoc ReadMe
• Installing CPU Software
• CPU Simulator Instructions
• What's Included

Reminder: Make sure OpenDoc™ is installed before installing CPU software.

Macintosh Power PCs:

1. Open up the Editors folder. The Editors folder is located within the System Folder.
2. Move or delete any old copies of CPU simulator editors that you may have previously installed.
3. Open the "CPU Editors for PPC machines" folder on the CPU CD (located inside the "CPU Software Editors" folder).
4. From the Edit menu, choose "Select All."
5. Drag the CPU editors into the Editors folder (the one in the System Folder).
6. Copy the CPU Stationery folder onto your hard drive. The location of the CPU Stationery folder is not important.

Macintoshes with 68K processors (all other Macs):

1. Open up the Editors folder. The Editors folder is located within the System Folder.
2. Move or delete any old copies of CPU simulator editors that you may have previously installed. Move or delete the copy of the ODFLibrary file installed with OpenDoc™.
3. Open the "CPU Editors for 68K machines" folder on the CPU CD (located inside the "CPU Software Editors" folder). This folder includes a copy of the ODFLibrary designed specifically for 68K computers.
4. From the Edit menu, choose "Select All."
5. Drag the CPU editors into the Editors folder (the one in the System Folder).
6. Copy the CPU Stationery folder onto your hard drive. The location of the CPU Stationery folder is not important.

Important note about hard drive space:

1) Each CPU Editor occupies between 1.1 and 2.5 MB of hard drive space.

2) Each CPU activity, written in Dock'Em, takes between 300 KB and 2 MB of hard drive space as stationery. (Most are in the range between 400 KB and 700 KB, depending on the number of pictures included in the activity.) When students open each one, add their own content (text, graphics and pictures), then save it, the document may increase in size by 30% to 100%. (If students save their final document as "a copy" the increase in memory is reduced. You should experiment with normal saving and saving "as a copy" to see the difference.) You need to keep these memory rquirements in mind when you implement the CPU activities on classroom computers.

Additional screen capture software needed:

Many of the CPU activities ask students to take "snapshots" of simulator set-ups. To enable students to do this you will need a program that allows them to take a snapshot of a user-chosen area of the screen and to copy it to the system clipboard. Then students can "paste" the picture into their activity document. We have used SnapzPro from Ambrosia Software (716-325-1910), but any similar screen capture program would probably work.