Hardware

You need a reasonably modern PC with 3D graphics hardware. Let's say that a 1 GHz Pentium CPU, 512 MB RAM and reasonable disk space as a minimum requirement. The performance of your graphics hardware, along with the amount of RAM you have, is a lot more critical than CPU speed. 

Will Terracopter run on a laptop? Certainly. Most of us use laptops while developing, meeting customers as well as while at trade shows. You need a laptop with 3D acceleration hardware, though - otherwise you will not be happy.

Software

Terracopter has been tested on Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP only. It is entirely possible that it will work at least on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98.

Furthermore you need an OpenGL implementation installed. In practice, this means that you have to have a 3D graphics card. If in doubt, check the Windows Registry for a key called :

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers

There should be at least one entry, representing your graphics card, there. Under that key, there should be a string value with the name of "Dll" that gives the name of the OpenGL driver, without the ".dll" extension. A DLL with that name should exist in your Windows system32 directory.

Terracopter under Linux

Terracopter has been successfully tested under WINE on Linux, but we currently do not offer a Linux distribution. If you cannot successfully install under Linux, first install under Windows and then copy the contents of the %PROGRAMFILES%\Dewire folder to your Linux maching.