Installing Swindle and Dr Swindle

Instructions for Macintosh PPC

The central page for this whole process is available from Eli's page. You should read over it and do what it says. The purpose of this document, however, is to clearly list the actual steps needed to install on a PowerMac. For reference, it took me less than thirty minutes on a G3/233 the first time I did it, and I took time to write these instructions between steps. If you read very quickly and have a good internet connection, you should be able to finish in 10-15 minutes.

It requires a few very basic skills:

Use of the web to download files
Double-clicking (see, I told you this wasn't hard)
Picking up files and dropping them onto other files
Making aliases (optional)
Renaming files (optional)

Ready?

The first thing to download the DrScheme package. Just choose the appropriate responses in the boxes on the page here. If you get a cryptic message asking what to do with the file, just save it to your hard drive.

You should have downloaded a file called plt.ppc-mac.sit.bin. It may have already decompressed automatically (look for a folder called plt). If it hasn't, you'll need to decompress by dragging the downloaded file onto StuffIt Expander (there should be a copy of StuffIt somewhere with your Bear Access files, or you can download it from Aladdin Systems).

Double-click the Setup PLT application. It can be found in the plt folder that appeared when you decompressed the downloaded file. When it gives you a weird box talking about "Argument", just click "OK". Now sit back and watch for a minute; it will create about a dozen files. Don't get impatient, sometimes it looks like it isn't doing anything for a little bit. Don't quit until it says something like:
```
          Done setting up
          [total memory used:  3039244 bytes.]
          [total collections:  114.]
    
```

Next, download the Swindle extension, following the same procedure as before (except you don't need StuffIt this time). It's here.

Take the swindle.plt file you just downloaded and drop it onto the Setup PLT application. It will act pretty much the same as before (click "OK" and watch stuff scroll up the screen). Again, you can quit when you see something like the following:
```
          Creating the Swindle (console) launcher...
          Creating the DrSwindle (GUI) launcher...
          Done setting up
          [total memory used:  1736712 bytes.]
          [total collections:  48.]
  
```

There will now be two new programs in the plt folder, called Swindle and DrSwindle. These are the programs you will be using for the course. Make sure to keep them in the same folder as all the other files that are part of the package. You can rename the folder if you don't like plt, and feel free to move it to a more appropriate location on your hard drive. Just make sure you keep the contents of the folder exactly how they are.

Now, there's one final optional section (not very difficult either). If you would like to make it slightly more convenient to launch the programs, read on. If you don't mind opening up the plt folder every time, you can stop now.

Good for you. This part is very quick. The first thing is to highlight Swindle and DrSwindle (single-click on one of the files, then hold down shift and single-click the other) and choose Make Alias from the File menu. You'll now have two 'aliases'. Double-clicking an alias is the same as double-clicking the file it is an alias for.

Now the last step is to move those two aliases somewhere convenient (by picking them up and dragging them). There are two places that come to mind. You can put them on the desktop (where your hard drive and the Trash are) by just dragging them onto it. If, instead, you'd like to put them on the Apple Menu (the one in the upper left corner of the screen), just open up the System Folder (it's on your hard drive) and drag them into the Apple Menu Items folder you'll find there.