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Originally Posted by curtw
Lordy, what is it with developers these days that they can't be bothered to code efficiently? This requires the *LATEST* OS, and a 1.4 MHz G4 as minimum specs? the *executable* takes up 50 MB of disc space? and they expect me to PAY for this?
(Just as a reference point, the newest version of iTunes has a smaller footprint, works just fine on a 400 MHz G3 running OS 10.3.9, and actually has to encode/decode something a little tougher than text)
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Hello,
Just to let you know, the executable for Voluminous actually doesn't take up 50 MB of disc space. I just checked, and in fact, it's 72kb.
The application as a whole is larger, about 20 MB, because it includes a catalogue of more than 20,000 books (currently 23,445 across about three dozen languages) which -- as you might imagine -- takes a bit of space, as well as the graphics required to construct book covers and such like. We recommend keeping more space free on your drive so that there's room to perform updates on the catalogue.
I'm afraid we do only support 10.5 because we do rely on certain Leopard features. Sorry about that, but as a tiny development house we have the staff or other resources to support everything. This forces us to make difficult decisions sometimes about what we do and don't support.
Ottocrat, I hope you find Voluminous useful when you try it out. Drop us a line and let us know how it goes!
Canis
Lead developer
Wooji Juice