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All versions of the Flux Capacitor and the Simulator, are available in the Repository at Google Code.

Go there and select the latest (tagged Featured) release bundle from either the Flux Capacitor (tag Capacitor), or the Flux Simulator (tag Simulator). Additional demonstration files (tag Samples are available for both programs. These files are not necessary to run the programs, but provide an example for the corresponding input/output. Update sample files only if necessary as their file size is unequally large than the actual program files. Please include the version (e.g., "v1.2") and build number (e.g., "b20090801") when filing reports in the bugtracker or discussing technical issues in the forum!

BETA testing

If you are an authorized Beta Tester, you can download the latest Flux Capacitor BETA, or Simulator BETA versions

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http://code.google.com/feeds/p/fluxcapacitor/downloads/basic

Alternatively you can simply click on the RSS symbol in your browsers address bar (usually at the top of the window).

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the SOFTWARE, to use and copy the SOFTWARE, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the SOFTWARE as whole or substantial portions of the SOFTWARE.
The SOFTWARE is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the author or copyright holder be liable for an claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of, or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the SOFTWARE.
The FLUX CAPACITOR bundle includes precompiled binaries, the source code (developed by Kjell Eikland and Peter Notebaert), and JNI interface (developed by Juergen Ebert) for a 3rd party program called "lp_solve". Use and distribution of these files are subject to the terms defined by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), refer to the project homepage for details.

System Requirements

In any case you need a computer and a monitor helps, a printer is not necessary. A Java Runtime Environment (JRE, available here or for Macintosh there) has to be installed on your system. Currently version 1.5 or higher is required - see the note in parentheses of the corresponding build.

The FLUX CAPACITOR reserves with default settings 1Gb of RAM at startup, however, these settings may be changed (see Installation). In addition, disk capacity for the output is needed -- as a rule of thumb you can expect around 2 times the size of the reference annotation file. Also, FLUX CAPACITOR depends on system-specific binaries of the lpsolve program and the corresponding native interface. Such precompiled libraries for common systems are included in the build bundles, however, I wrote instructions how to obtain them for generic platforms, see section "Installation".