System requirements

The minimum configuration tested with this implementation of ${\manual META}$ ${\manual FONT}$ was a Commodore Amiga 2000 running the standard 68000 Motorola processor and 2 ${\mc MB}$ of Chip ${\mc RAM}$ , although a total of only 1 ${\mc MB}$ were actually used with the default configuration. Memory requirement may increase depending on the font to be created and the settings in the ${\manual META}$ ${\manual FONT}$ configuration. (See section

.) The operating system was Kickstart 37.175 and Workbench 38.36. All programs included in this package are capable of running under version 1.3 of the operating system. Only the online display of ${\manual META}$ ${\manual FONT}$ requires version 2, because of the use of some advanced graphics routines, but this feature is protected when used with version 1.3.

There are special versions of the Ini ${\mc MF}$ and Vir ${\mc MF}$ programs provided for advanced hardware configurations like the Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 or Amigas with accelerator boards. These two programs rely on features of the 68020 Motorola processor not present in the 68000 processor. They will run approximately twenty to thirty percent faster, but they will crash on non-accelerated Amigas! All other programs that come with this package are compiled for use on any standard Amiga configuration.

${\manual META}$ ${\manual FONT}$ is a large system intended for large tasks, so this is no greasy kids' stuff! The creation of cmr10 for the 300 dpi DeskJet printer driver of PasTEX can be as quick as 48 seconds on a 50 ${\mc MH}$ z 68030 accelerator board with a coprocessor and sufficient 32 bit Fast ${\mc RAM}$ but as slow as 10 minutes and 5 seconds on a standard 7 ${\mc MH}$ z Amiga with slow 16 bit ${\mc RAM}$ , although the programs are capable of running on both configurations.