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The previous V1.x updates used too much CPU power and those with older, slow PC's found that playing most of their songs would quickly bring the PC to a halt. Andy has answered this question and a lot more, in beta tests playing a 32 stereo channel MOD in MED v1.5 has greatly reduced the CPU usage. This improvement means that when playing your songs, you will find that the response time from the MED GUI has greatly improved and is now much smoother, even with a song playing that contains many large samples. To quote John Neil, the MED Help editor.............. Play back is smooth to the point of silky, and again those expecting the same as V1.4 in this department will be very surprised indeed. Another major change in this last V1.x is the online help system. The old style Windows help files has been replaced by the Microsoft HTML help. This means you will be able to browse through the help files in the same manner as you would through the Internet. In addition to this, there have been even more changes in this department, you will find that new bubble help (or Balloon) has replaced the '?' windows dialog help. A number of features are under a new subcategory on the 'Settings' menu, aptly named 'Others'. This is where a number of advanced settings will be found. ExclusiveSoundOutput: Set to false MED and other audio programs can share sound together. ShowBalloonhelp: Turn off the balloon help when using MED OutputPlugin: Assign which plug-in Med will use to save your song to disk. PluginDir: Change the folder where you keep your MED Plugins. SampleUndoCount: adjust upwards if you have free memory, down if you are memory constrained This is a major upgrade, the majority of code that was used when Med was first ported over from the Amiga has been removed or re-written as a testbed for the engine to be used within the next V2 Anyone registering this upgrade will be entitled to a discount off of v2 in 2004.