You will find Java-based advertising programs which work on the Internet as online, real-time, interactive, and comprehensive media planning systems with planning tools, and media audience data banks.

The IMACC (Interactive Models for Advertising Consumer Communication) software consists of four application programs below. To see the details of each program, please click on the hyperlinks.

1. Downloading

Two different versions of IMACC are available from this archive--a regular version and a video version. The regular version takes about 2 MB of hard disk space after installation. The video version of IMACC is much larger than the regular one in its size--it takes up to 8 MB of disk space. If you want to download the regular IMACC, click here. If you want to download the video version of IMACC, please click here. Video for Windows will be automatically installed for viewing TV commercials when you are setting up IMACC video version.

Also, FReach Teach Tutorial System for Windows 95 (32 bit) is available. You will need Winzip95 6.0 to unzip this program after you download it.

Please click here to download the Instructor's Version of AMCAAMX.

2. Decompression & Installation

After downloading the software, you need to unzip the compressed files for further installation. If you do not have a compression program, click here to download. For the best result, please use the winzip56.exe program.

In order to install IMACC software on a PC, you must have Windows 3.1, 3.11 or Windows 95 (works great in Windows 95) installed on your PC. Although the Macintosh version of IMACC is not available yet, you can run IMACC software very nicely if you have SoftWindows on your Macintosh or PowerMac. When you are running SoftWindows, make sure to change the video display option so that it can display the entire screen of IMACC programs (the Mac display bar becomes hidden). 486 PC versions of Softwindows are now available (Please send us a comment using the comment facility on the Center for Interactive Advertising Feedback page if you have questions about SoftWindows for Mac/PowerMac or installation questions generally. We will be glad to help if we can).

After decompressing [imacc.zip] or [imaccvid.zip] files, you will find a [setup.exe] file in each of these. Using the File Manager in the Main folder in Windows or Explorer in Windows 95, highlight the [setup.exe] file and double click it. Then, you will see the dialog box which will lead you through the installation.

After finishing the installation, you should have an IMACC folder on the desktop, under which AdBudg, FReach Teach, AMCAAMX, and AyerPlan icons are present. Double click on these icons to launch any of the programs.


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