[Outdated] FreeMat Portable 3.6 Development Test 5

FreeMat has now been released (Note: This is Bart.S' post, I just uploaded the file :P)

Get it while it's hot!

Hi I work in a museum and integrated in our setup is a science centre where as you can guess theres scientists doing research. I know I've heard grumbles about how they need better software for analysing their data. I think thats what this app doe (Please correct if wrong). Once this app is further along I'll introduce it to them which should give you a pretty good testing base. Hope this helps.

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I was using a >60MB home made GNU Octave portable.
I am now using Freemat (which I had never tried before).
No problem until now.

Arnaud

Hi Bart S.

Just dropping by to see how things are going. What sort of downloads have you been getting? When this reaches pre-release I'll take it over to the science centre and see how it is received : )

Can you tell me some specific functions/uses for FreeMat Portable? Now that I work at UniSA should be easier to introduce your software to students within the relevant disciplines. Previously I found the scientists at the museum where I was working to be reluctant to try the new software. However students being generally younger I would think they would be more open to trying out new things. Additionally, students generally being low income earners one can see them being more receptive to the idea of FOSS

I have Windows 7 OS on my new laptop but whenever I try to start up FreeMat portable I get the splash screen but the application window never comes up. Is it supposed to take a long time to start up or is there something wrong?

I have a 1.50 GHz AMD E-240 processor and 3 gigs of RAM which should be plenty of processor speed and RAM although if it's anything like MATLAB it is likely very resource intensive...I used MATLAB once in a numerical analysis class

FreeMat Portable is also in the list of running processes but again I have no application window

well it was more to see if anyone else had a similar issue or if it's just me for the plot command