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So, I just got a job teaching kids computer skills. I had really hoped to get some good multimedia stuff in, had a bunch of stuff planned, etc. Then I saw the lab today, and here are the specs I must work with:
Compaq Ipaq 800MHz Celeron, 128MB RAM.
So I need your help. Think back to what you were using for software for fun and work around this time. I am looking for a little graphics, audio, and office stuff here. Hopefully things that could provide a learning experience- but at the very least, things that'll keep em out of trouble.
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06/22/08
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crazyshadow
well im gonna tell ya that more then enough for corel draw 7, cool edit 96 or audacity 1.2.4, wordperfect suite 7, winamp 3, i think you should not have any problem whit those on win95 and 98 other then that i not sure cause i use those on a win98 machine with 32mb of ram and they work fine
06/22/08
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crazyshadow
oh and music wise i use sound club tracker for windows its nice and fonctional
06/22/08
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license
oh dude. yeah. Buzz all the way.
I used to use a machine a little slower than that for EVERYTHING. it took some thought to get Buzz to choke on it. I think I even got PD working.
my new baby is a 10 year old Vaio. 400 mHz and again Buzz is mostly fine on it, as long as I'm stingy with my machines.
find an old version of Cooledit for recording and editing and you're in like Flynn.
06/22/08
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deltasleep
remember this is for kids with little or no computer experience- i think buzz would run off all but a few.
06/22/08
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korgborglar
fruityloops 1 is almost unusable, find a 3.0 release. i used to rock fruityloops 3 on a 500 mhz computer and it ran really well.
rebirth might be a good choice too
06/22/08
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license
ah, right.
well I seem to remember rockin out on Rebirth on a 486 and it doesn't get too much more intuitive than that. that was my first taste of playing with electronic music. that's probably a bit homogenous sounding but for what it is I believe there was a decent amount of stuff you could do with it.
FL would be sweet. plenty of fun to be had with that. might be just a hair complicated but nothing you couldn't teach them in an afternoon. and it's something that could grow with them, which might make for a more lasting impression. also it's more likely that kids could find sonic flavors they like.
06/22/08
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nagrom
Sonic Foundry (now Sony) Acid MUSIC 2.0 or 3.0 would be really great for kids. It's what I started with when I was 11.
06/22/08
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deltasleep
Ah thanks skip, I hadn't thought about an older ACID. I have a newer ACID, but of course none of my computers could run it. The trouble is, I need versions of this stuff that doesn't totally look like warez. And other than warez, it's gonna be hard to find older versions of much stuff.
06/22/08
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deltasleep
Had a hard time finding a 3.0 release, but I think I found a solid 4.0 release I might try.
Oh and I try hard not to call you skip, morgan. I really do.
06/22/08
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jogn
impulse tracker? though i don't think jeff lim's been working on that for some time. milky tracker should work great. Also nothing will beat trying to run mame and a little street fighter on it.
yeah rebirth is going to knock their socks off.
06/23/08
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ricemutt
rebirth would break kids' minds, haha. that program is really really confusing if you haven't worked with hardware synths before. that's why I nver really used it when I first saw it.
06/23/08
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deltasleep
yeah rebirth isn't eve something I would teach- i'd just let them fiddle with it and try to figure it out on their own. Thats the only reason I'd choose it- because you just press play and it goes. Buzz requires a lot of routing and stuff- and programming in a tracker style is about as inaccessible to a 6 year old as it gets.
06/23/08
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kenrestivo
IIRC, all the music-teaching programs from the OLPC project are open source. If that's the case, they should run on any linux PC then.
The OLPC has some great music software, based on Csound, which is kid-oriented and friendly. link
06/23/08
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kenrestivo
Whoops, sorry, better link here: link
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