The 3DO Debugger takes care of communication between ARIA on your
Macintosh and the 3DO Station. You have to set it up correctly before you
can start ARIA.
Note: When you start ARIA for the first time, it creates a number
of files and folders on your hard disk. If you expect to use samples to
play MIDI, you also have to move some files and folders into those newly
created folders, as discussed Setup for
working with MIDI.
Debugger version requirement
To successfully work with this version of ARIA, you have to use the
Debugger from the Toolkit 1.4 CD-ROM or a later version.
It is currently not possible to use ARIA without the 3DO Debugger, since
the Debugger is responsible for communicating between the Macintosh and
the 3DO Station.
Launch the Debugger.
Choose one of the default scripts in the 3DO:3DO_OS:version:
folder, depending on the hardware and monitor you are using.
If the words "Not Executing" appear in the menu bar (Debugger 1.9) or
in the notification window (Debugger 2.0), release the operating system by
typing Command-G.
If you wish, close some of the debugging windows to avoid clutter. You
should only need the Debugger Terminal window.
With the Debugger running, double-click on the ARIA icon to bring up
the application.
Note: If you know you won't need to run MIDI Manager
during this round of development, hold down the M key while ARIA is
starting up.
What happens next depends on whether ARIA launched successfully or
not:
If an error occurs, an alert appears and information about the error
is written to the ARIA Log window. Follow the instructions in the Log
window to adjust your system setup.
If ARIA is launched successfully, the following windows appear:
The Block palette gives access to
the tools you can use to construct patches.
The large window below the block palette is a patch document window.
Working with patches is discussed in Creating Patches with ARIA.