CPU and RAM: Aura ran fine on my old 233 MHz Pentium II with 32 MB RAM,
and I'm sure it would work on older machines as well, but I haven't tested that out much.
Audio: Sound card capable of digital sound and midi is required for proper play.
4+ channel sound and environmental effects are optional but supported.
Joystick/Gamepad: Optional, but supported. Pretty much any one should work...
Monitor/Video Card: Optional.
Step 1: Unzip
If you are reading this, most likely you have taken care of this step already. You'll want to Unzip all the Aura files into one folder, keeping the directory structure in tact.
Step 2: Play
The first time you run Aura, you'll be asked a few questions about configuration, language preference (if multiple translations are detected), and the like. It takes about a minute to set things up, and then you're ready to play.
- Try editing the allegro.cfg file
The allegro.cfg file is a plain text file in the root Aura directory. It's probably easiest to edit it by hand, but if you'd like you can also install the Allegro Setup Utility (included as the file alsetup.zip in the goodies folder); once you have a working configuration, copy that program's allegro.cfg and use it in place of Aura's.
- Restoring Aura to initial settings
To restore Aura's default settings, just delete the file aura.cfg. This can come in handy if, say, someone changes the language and all the controls and you can't figure out what's what. You'll have to do all of the first run configuration over again if you do this, though.
- Advanced Users: Using your own DLLs
Aura uses the "off the shelf" versions of the Allegro and OggVorbis DLLs. This means if you have your own version (whether it be a newer version of them, a version optimized for your machine, or whatever) of these files, you can use them if you want and Aura won't put up a fight.