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Last updated 06/15/2010
Download Alice 2.2 for Windows (281MB)
Download Alice 2.2 for Mac (295MB)
Alternate downloads:
Alice 2.2 for Windows with Learning to Program with Alice textbook worlds (318MB)
Alice 2.2 for Mac with Learning to Program with Alice textbook worlds (368MB)
System requirements
Windows:
* Windows 7, Vista, XP, or 2000
* Intel Pentium II or equivalent processor
* A VGA graphics card capable of high (16 bit) color and 1024x768 resolution (3D video card recommended)
* 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
* A sound card
Mac:
* Mac OS X 10.4+
* PowerPC or Intel processor
* A VGA graphics card capable of high (16 bit) color and 1024x768 resolution (3D video card recommended)
* 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
* A sound card
Download and Installation Instructions
Alice does not require "installation" in the same way that many other software applications do. All we really need is a place on the machine's hard drive to copy files. As a result, the installation of Alice should succeed on machines where others would fail.
PC-only instructions:
Download and extract the files within, as you would any other compressed (.zip) file. It will create an Alice folder within which you can run the Alice application (Alice.exe).
Mac-only instructions:
Download the appropriate version of Alice based on your computer configuration -- 10.4+ for operating systems running Tiger or Leopard, and 10.3 for operating systems running Panther.
If you are unsure which operating system you are running, you can check by clicking on the Apple icon located in upper-left corner of the screen and clicking "About This Mac." Your operating system version will be listed here.
After downloading Alice, double-click the disk image (.dmg) to mount the Alice volume. Open the Alice volume (it should open automatically) and drag the Alice app to your desktop. If the file gets copied successfully, you can drag the Alice volume to the trash.
Changes:
The main differences between Alice 2.2 and its predecessor, Alice 2.0 are:
Alice 2.2 for Windows:
- Functional video exporter
- Built-in walk animation/methods for 20+ humanoid characters
- Rendering engine choice of Java OpenGL (JOGL) or DirectX
- Random number function for integers fixed
- Ability to change location where Alice stores its preferences -- for those on networked or permission-deprived machines
- Bug submission button removed, due to broken database
Alice 2.2 for Mac:
- Functional video exporter
- Built-in walk animation/methods for 20+ humanoid characters
- Random number function for integers fixed
- Bug submission button removed, due to broken database
- Bounding box fixed
Guide:
We have written a short document with some helpful info to get you started with Alice 2.2 and exporting video:
Guide to Alice 2.2 and creating video
Using Alice on a networked machine:
Alice 2.0 compatibility with networked machines has been hit-or-miss. This was due to the Alice preferences file location being hard-coded as:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.alice
In cases where the user's home directory was not on the C drive or in a different path, Alice would throw up a gallery viewer error and possibly prevent the user from accessing Alice.
We have modified Alice 2.2 to allow the user to enter in the path to a writable directory on any drive, networked or local. This can be done by opening up the following file in a text editor:
Alice 2.2\Required\etc\version.txt
It should look like this:
2.2 9/1/2008
0x7F8AD1
Add a new line at the bottom and enter in the *full* path to where you would like the preferences stored. This will need to be a writable directory. Do not use quotes. For example, if I wanted to change the location to my desktop on drive E, I would do the following:
2.2 9/1/2008
0x7F8AD1
E:\Documents and Settings\jtimberlake\Desktop\.alice2
Save the file and close it. If Alice is running, make sure to shut it down and restart. To confirm it is working, navigate to the directory you typed above and you should see a .alice2 directory. If you do not see one, make sure hidden directories are viewable.
If you discover new bugs that are in 2.2, please let us know! Make sure to be as detailed as possible, and indicate the OS you are using, as well as whether this bug is new to 2.2 or in both 2.2 and 2.0. We will be working on getting this release as stable as we can, but we need your feedback! Feature-wise, we don't have plans to introduce any additional functionality prior to 3.0, but we will do our best to fix major bugs. Thank you in advance for your help and patience!
Some major bugs that have been fixed in this latest Windows version:
- You can double-click on an a2w file to open the file in Alice. You will need to associate the file
- When a group is deleted from the world tree, objects inside the group were disappearing from the tree, but remaining in the world window. Now, deleting a group also deletes the objects from the world window.
- If you move an object (with the same name) from a group to the world, Alice would throw an error; the object disappeared from the group, but remains in the world window. Now, Alice will check for name collision and will not allow the move until you change the name.
- Some fonts appeared as boxes in a foreign language (Chinese, Japanese or Korean) Windows operating system. Now, these fonts work in other languages.
Some major bugs that have been fixed in this latest MAC version:
- Same as 2, 3, and 4 for Windows.
- One shot menus now appear in front of the world window when opened.
- You can now control click on a tile to disable/enable/copy the tile.
- The look and feel for MAC now matches other MAC applications.
- Fixed the tutorials for MAC. There was a path error (it's the slash and backslash problem) and people were having problems with the tutorial, especially tutorial 4.
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