Required Runtime Environment
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Known to work properly in:

    Windows 2000, Windows NT4 with Service Pack 3 or above installed
    Windows 95, 98, 98 2nd Edition and ME
    (All known win32 environments with OpenGL & DirectX 3 or above)


To run the simulation you will need:

    - An OpenGL capable graphics card.
    - A Pentium class processor or better
      (needed for the simulation's high performance timing).
    - Microsoft's DirectX version 3 or above installed
      (because DirectDraw is used to enumerate the display modes).
    - 16 bits or more colour depth display modes
      (because it does not use 256 colour mode palettes).


To improve the frame rate, which is crucial to the simulation:
    - Reduce the number of boids.
    - Use the smaller boid's meshes.
    - Reduce the landscape features.
    - Reduce the active boids behaviour features.
    - Use an accelerated graphics card.
      ( I recommend the GeForce 256, nearly triple the frame rate with hardware
       transform and lighting. Visit -> www.nvidia.com for more details. )
    - The faster the CPU the better.
    - Use a Windows NT Kernel operating system.
    - Use NT with multiprocessing ( more than one CPU ).


If you are using Windows 95 without DirectX drivers, visit:
    http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/
    to update your system.