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Downloadable trial versions of MLAB are available for Windows 95/98/2000/NT/Me/XP PCs, Linux PCs, and Macintoshes (native OSX version and also an OS 9.2 and earlier version). (MLAB is also available for Windows 3.1 or DOS on a 286 or later chipset, but no downloadable versions currently exist.) After you try MLAB, please email us with your comments and questions (at csi@civilized.com)!
To download a trial MLAB system for an OS-9 or earlier Mac operating system on a PowerPC or a 68K Macintosh, please click HERE.
To download an Mac OSX-native trial version of MLAB, please click HERE
To download a trial MLAB system for a Linux PC, please click HERE.
If you want to download a trial version of MLAB for a Windows PC, keep reading!
(You may want to print this web-page before you leave it!) The compressed file is 1556992 bytes in size and should takes less than a minute or two to download under usual conditions. (If the file you get does not match the size above, you do not have the entire file - please try again.)
This trial version of MLAB is the complete program with an expiration date. On-line help is available (by typing "help" in MLAB), and you may order the MLAB manuals and have them shipped to you by mail (see the offer in the README file that appears in the mlab directory after you download and uncompress the compressed file.) The MLAB manuals are also available in PDF form from this website. Click here to go to the Manuals page.
When you click below to download the trial version of MLAB, a WINZIP self-extracting file called zmlab.exe will be downloaded to your computer via the http protocol through your web browser. The name and location of this file that will be created on your PC may vary according to the behavior of your browser and options you select. [If you are given the option, tell your browser to save the downloaded file in C:\ with the name ZMLAB.EXE - otherwise you will need to manually rename the downloaded file as ZMLAB.EXE and place it in C:\]
After you obtain the file zmlab.exe via downloading, you must follow the following steps to "install" MLAB and run it. These directions, plus other information will be found in the README file you will obtain (but only after uncompressing ZMLAB.EXE following the steps below!)
First you must uncompress the packed files in ZMLAB.EXE by running it (the first part of the file ZMLAB.EXE is the WINZIP uncompression and extraction program.) To run ZMLAB.EXE, you must "find" the file via Windows, and then double-click on the file-name to request that it be run.
Running ZMLAB.EXE will create a directory called MLAB at the top level of your active logical drive with various files and sub-directories in it. When a WINZIP window appears, select the unzip option.
Sometimes your browser will take control and run the downloaded file immediately after it has downloaded it. This is annoying, but acceptable.
After the ZMLAB.EXE file has been uncompressed, a program called SETUP.EXE found in the newly-established MLAB directory will be automatically run. Running SETUP will create an entry in the Programs submenu of the Start Menu, and will also create a desktop icon for MLAB.
You may now run MLAB by using any of the common devices for running programs provided in the Windows operating environment. One way to run MLAB is to use 'Windows Explorer' or 'My Computer' to display the C:\MLAB directory, and then double-click on icon for the MLAB executable file MLAB.EXE, just as you ran SETUP above. You can also double-click on the shortcut icon on your desktop to run MLAB.
Please print the file called README that will be found in the \MLAB directory after it is created.
Now, click HERE to download MLAB for Windows.