ACT-R for Windows

[Christian Lebiere]

The latest version of ACT-R (2.1) has been ported by Serene Taleb-Agha
to Allegro Common Lisp 2.0 on Windows machines.  It can be found at:

ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/act-r/ftp/release/Windows/acl-actr

Included below is the readme file provided by Serene.

Christian Lebiere

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ACT-R 2.1 for Allegro Common Lisp 2.0 for Windows

Downloading
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You can download ACT-R in either uncompressed or compressed form. The
compressed version of ACT-R is called acl-actr.zip and is located in
this directory. You will need to unpack it with PKUNZIP. PKUNZIP can be
found on just about any FTP site. To uncompress, you need to type the
following: 

c:> pkunzip -d acl-actr.zip

The "-d" is important to preserving the directory structure.

To download the files in uncompressed form, cd to the subdirectory
called "acl-actr" located in this directory and download the files in
the "code" and "examples" subdirectories. Make sure you preserve
the subdirectory structure of the files you download. (i.e.
subdirectory called CODE containing *.lsp files, a subdirectory called
EXAMPLES containing *.act files..)

Installing:
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Before you can run ACT-R, you need to make a few modifications to the
files you downloaded. Start up Allegro Common Lisp for Windows. Open the
file "actload.lsp" This file is the loader. You will need to change the
value of the variable *ACT-R-PATH* to reflect the actual path to the
ACT-R code on your machine (the actual path of the CODE subdirectory in
the ACT-R distribution) Note that you need to separate path elements by
two backslashes "\\" instead of one. Save this file.

Running ACT-R:
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To run ACT-R, make sure that you are in Allegro Common Lisp. Load the
file "actload.lsp" ACT-R should load without errors and display the
ACT-R banner when finished. 

To try out some sample ACT-R files, try loading a file from the
EXAMPLES subdirectory.

You can change ACT-R's default parameters by using the commands beneath
the ACT-R menu.

OTHER STUFF
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If you have any problems with this version of ACT-R, please contact me 
(Serene Taleb-Agha) at:

serene+ at cmu.edu

If you have general questions about ACT-R, contact Christian Lebiere at:

cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu

There is also a mailing list for discussion of ACT-R. It's address is:

act-r-users+ at andrew.cmu.edu

Contact Christian Lebiere (address above) to be put on the mailing
list.