was just wondering what the minimum p.c. specs are for pd.
i have two old ibm thinkpads. one is a p100 with 40 megs of ram and the other is a p150 with 45 megs. i tried to run it once on the p100 under windows 95 but it had problems at start up, was unreasonably slow, and said it couldn't find the sound card. would linux be any better? should i give up? also have grandiose ideas about networking them somehow but thats probably pretty far down the line...

i'd recommend the second hand computer market. for a small cash investment you can get something much more useful.

pd will probably run on a really old computer (i don't know what the minimum specs are, but pd itself shouldn't take too much)

but, to do anything funky, you're going to want a bit more power.

thats what i was afraid of... i'll just wait till i can afford a slightly better laptop... meanwhile i'll noodle with trackers on the old guys...

don't get me wrong...the basic pd stuff will still run on old systems...but even on my 800mhz g4, things get a little strained when trying to run realtime fft analysis and the like.

but go for it with the trackers......as long as you have a decent soundcard to output stuf,, trackers produce amazing sounds.

squim--what trackers do you use? i can remember spending countless hours using fast tracker II back in the mid 90's on my intel 486 DX 33MHz. i think i used impulse tracker a little bit too. hah brings back memories. i put together some pretty shitty tracks back then--but trackers were great.
--zac

i have a 486dx in my living room with fast tracker 2 and impulse tracker and a couple others i cant remember right now. i like those old trackers alot. ft2 in particular is lots of fun. I've made my shre of shitty tracks beleive me... i don't think i've made anything very good yet, but i keep trying. Theres a few windows trackers i play with nowadays... still not getting any better at tracking .