INSTALLING THE BINARY VERSION OF OSW FOR WINDOWS 2000/XP These instructions are intended for users who are using the self-installing executable distribution for Windows. 0. REQUIREMENTS OSW is only supported on Windows 2000 and XP. It may run on Windows ME and 98SE as well, but it's doubtful and you're on your own trying to make it work. While OSW will in fact run without a Windows-compatible soundcard, it will probably not be very interesting. Any card with standard Windows WDM drivers should work. However, a high-performance sound card with low-latency ASIO drivers is strongly recommended. 1. INSTALL THE OSW DISTRIBUTION OSW 1.1 and higher is packaged as a self-installing executable called: oswX.X.X.win.exe Simply double-click on this file after downloading it (if you're feeling lucky you can just select "Open" from your browser while downloading) and follow the instructions. 1.1 INSTALLING TCL/TK If you do not already have Tcl/Tk 8.2 and Incr Tcl installed on your system, you will be prompted during the installation process to install these components. Installation then proceeds automatically, except that you MUST CHECK THE BOX FOR INCR TCL AND IWIDGET SUPPORT! Failing to do so will prevent OSW from running after installation. Note: those of you with ActiveTcl installed will probably still need to install this version of Tcl/Tk as well. The two versions should be able to co-exist, though there may be some issues about which version is used by default to open scripts when launched from Explorer. 2. START PLAYING That's it. You should be ready to start using OSW now. Have fun!