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Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Legacy DMASTR/DMDX Laboratories

DMASTR is no longer a supported research tool at MACCS. DMASTR hardware is on average 14 years old, is not in any way reliable and is unable to be repaired when it breaks down. For reference however here is Anna Woollam's DMASTR tutorial.

If anyone needs to rerun an experiment done on the old DMDX hardware/software there will be one of DMDX1,2,3 and one of DMDX4,5 archived in the MACCS server room. DMASTR machines may or may not be available.

Following are the specifications for our old research hardware, just in case anyone needs to reference it.

Deltacom 486 (DMASTR)
Operating System MS-DOS
Processor Intel 486, 25 to 66Mhz
Optical Drive CDROM
Floppy Drive 3.5" HD
Monitor Monochrome CGA
Button box interface PIO Card
Other ports Serial, Parallel
Software
DMASTR unknown version
screen refresh 14.3ms

 

Dell Dimension XPST650r (DMDX1,2,3)
Operating System Windows 98 2nd Edition
Processor 650Mhz Pentium 3
RAM 256MB
Hard disk 15GB ATA
Optical Drive 36X CDROM
Floppy Drive Yes
Zip Drive 250MB
Monitor Dell 19" Flat Trinitron monitor
Video Card 32MB TNT2 M64 AGP
Audio Card Sound Blaster Live! Value audio card
Button box interface Computerboards PCI-DIO24
Other ports USB 1.1, Serial, Parallel, Gameport
Software
DMDX 2.4.06
1024x768 (16bit) 8.3ms

 

Dell Optiplex GX240 (DMDX4,5)
Operating System Windows 98 2nd Edition
Processor 1.6Ghz Pentium 4
RAM 256MB
Hard disk 15GB ATA
Optical Drive 36X CDROM
Floppy Drive Yes
Zip Drive 250MB
Monitor Dell 19" Flat Trinitron monitor
Video Card 32MB Raedon VE
Audio Card Sound Blaster Live! Value audio card
Button box interface Computerboards PCI-DIO24
Other ports USB 1.1, Serial, Parallel, Gameport
Software
DMDX 2.4.06
1024x768 (8bit) 8.4ms
1024x768 (16bit) 11.7ms