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Requirements

• Pentium 500MHz or aequivalent or more
• 256MB RAM or more
• 200MB or more free space on harddisk (mainly for swap-space for undo-history)
• Linux or Windows OS
• Java runtime environment JRE 1.4.0 or higher

Binaries

• laoe_bin_v0_6_03.tar.gz (1.3MB) 28.05.2003

Older versions of LAoE are still available here, but not recommanded to use anymore.

• laoe_bin_v0_6_01.tar.gz (1.5MB) 12.02.2003

• laoe_bin_v0_4_09.tar.gz (1.5MB) 19.07.2002

Source

Installation

• if not available, install the java runtime environment jre 1.4.0 or higher
• extract the file laoe_bin_vx_x_xx.tar.gz into a desired location
• linux: run the script laoe to launch LAoE
• windows: run the batch laoe.bat to launch LAoE
• if the given user starts LAoE for the first time, a .laoe directory is automatically created in the user home directory
• read the "tip of the day" to learn how to use LAoE

Problems

• No audio-file can be opened anymore, "unsupported audioformat error" appears all the time. This is probably a bug of the underlying tritonus-audio-library. There is a work-around: remove all files in the installation beginning with "tritonus_" and ending with ".jar". Now you have no .mp3 .gsm and .ogg fileformat support anymore, but .wav .aiff and .au work again.
• An older version of the java runtime environment than 1.4.0 is installed. In this case, the script/batch terminates with error-messages. Maybe jre 1.4.0 is installed, but an older version is also installed and started per default. In this case update your paths. The version of the current running jre can be checked with the command: java -version.
• The binary file was extracted without file-hierarchy information, flat, into one single directory. In this case LAoE may begin to start, but will fail during startup. Check if in the directory v0_4_xx you have a subdirectory history.
• LAoE has been launched from another directory, like this:
  /xxx/yyy/laoe
  where /xxx/yyy is the path. LAoE will not work properly when launched from another directory. Change into the LAoE directory and then start laoe from there, like this:
  cd /xxx/yyy
laoe.
• LAoE has been installed on a machine without the required resources. It seems to work, but much too slow. Memory swap doesn't end, after minutes the result is visible. If you have a Pentium 1, 133MHz, 64MB RAM, LAoE will maybe run, but too slow to work with.
• If your computer has not enough memory to launch LAoE, there is an issue to tell LAoE to use less memory. Edit the file laoe (or laoe.bat on windows). Replace the memory size with a smaller number like:
  ...java -Xms128M -Xmx128M -jar laoeUi.jar...
  or
  ...java -Xms64M -Xmx64M -jar laoeUi.jar...
  which corresponds to the number of megabytes to use. Ok, you will not be able to edit as big files as with the original LAoE, but LAoE will work on your computer.
• LAoE must be installed in a directory, where you have read and write access. (until version v0.6.01)