Eprime 2-sound file problem

[David McFarlane]

Mich,

>David, do you know if there's any chance it'd be possible to run the 
>experiments in WinXP mode (Lidia might give that a try too). I have 
>little idea myself, and it would be convenient if PST could at some 
>point check this thoroughly (at least in terms of timing), in order 
>to give the rest of us some answer.

I wish I knew about using WinXP mode in Win7, but I have had no time 
to explore that.  Even if that worked well enough for development, I 
would not want to use it for running subjects until I put it through 
extensive critical timing tests.  Yes it would be nice if PST would 
test that for us, or if any of us would do that and then report back 
-- for all I know someone did do this and published it in Behavioral 
Reseach Methods, but sadly I also have no time to keep up with that 
excellent periodical.

>Of course, a commercial company is sawing off their own branch if 
>they don't even try to keep up with technological trends ('we won't 
>patch our $650 program because you updated your $20 (academic 
>license) OS'?), so all in all, they should have long had a decent 
>Vista, let alone Win7, version.

Nevertheless, PST has a long history of lagging behind the 
times.  They did not replace their DOS-based MEL with E-Prime until 
about 2000, and then EP1 ran only on Windows 98 machines at a time 
when those had already been superceded by Windows 2000 and XP.  It 
took PST a long time to come up with an XP-compatible version of 
EP1.  Then look how long it is taking them to to come up with an 
upgrade to EP1 -- note that what we get as EP2 is still only a 
"release candidate", so we still do not have an official upgrade 
product (and ironically, EP1 works better under Vista/Win7 than EP2 does!).

So I have just come to expect this from PST.  OTOH, unless we do the 
work of coming up with our own company, maybe we should consider 
ourselves lucky for what little we do have.

Regards,
-- dkm

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