System overview | Pangolin provides you with the LD2000 CD-ROM disc, a QM2000 board, a cable adapter and a 50-page LD2000 Installation Manual. You must provide a laser projector, and a Windows-compatible computer with at least one PCI slot. There are two other tasks you should do before your system arrives: | • Make a cable to go from the QM2000 outputs to your projector inputs. Buy or borrow audio CDs, so you can run some of the dozens of shows which already come with LD2000. | | Laser projector | You can run LD2000 on just about any laser projector. However, the recommended system uses high-speed scanners that can display the ILDA test pattern at 30,000 points per second or more. | | Computer requirements | The minimum computer requirement is any PC (IBM-compatible) with at least one PCI slot, and which can run Windows 95/98 or Windows 2000). Because LD2000 comes with its own computer, the QM2000 board, your Lasershow Designer 2000 system will run at the same speed no matter how fast or slow your computer runs. However, for creating shows we highly recommend a fast computer with multimedia (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, sound card), and extra memory. This is because Windows itself can be slow; the extra speed will make windows and graphics draw much faster. LD2000's minimum video requirements are SVGA (800 x 600) with at least 16-bit ""high"" colour (32.000 colours). Be sure to select your video driver's ""Small fonts"" option. Using large fonts changes the text spacing in LD's windows. | | Hard drive space | The current version of LD2000 takes up roughly 80,000,000 bytes (80 megabytes). Because each file requires additional hard drive overhead space, systems using Windows 95/98 may actually require 100 MB or more to store this data. As you use LD2000, you'll need additional space to accommodate your work. Very roughly, you can assume about 2 Mb for every five minutes of show time.