Ordering Engines

Engines For Education is available from the publisher, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in different formats:

These prices are subject to change. (At the moment, LEA offers a 15% discount on materials purchased through their web site.) If you do not care to shop over the internet, they also have a toll-free number, 1-800-9-BOOKS-9.

About the Engines CD-ROM

The CD-ROM version of Engines for Education has four advantages over the book or this web version:

It contains guided demonstrations of a variety of programs developed at ILS. These demonstrations are not available on the Web because they include approximately 500 MB of video.
It's better at proactively holding up its end of conversation than the Web version.
It has a cleaner interface.
It's searchable.

Requirements:

Macintosh with at least 16 MB of RAM
A standard-sized monitor or larger (i.e., at least 640x480 pixels)
A CD-ROM drive
System 7.0 or later
Quicktime 1.6 or later

(There currently are no plans to create a PC version)

About the Engines upgrade

If you already have a copy of the CD-ROM, and would like to run Engines For Education on a Power Mac running System 7.6 or newer, you need to download a new version of the application. The upgrade is a 3.5 MB self-extracting archive in MacBinary II format.

The hardware required for the new version:

PowerMac with 24 MB of RAM
A standard-sized monitor or larger (i.e., at least 640x480 pixels)
A CD-ROM drive
10 MB of free space on your hard drive