Eprime 2-sound file problem

[Lidia Suarez]

Dear David and Mich,

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to get a computer with XP and give it a
try. Let's wait for the PST reply too. I will keep you updated. Really
grateful for your replies.

Regards,
Lidia

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:54 AM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> 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 superceded by Windows 2000 and XP.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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