WorldWind South Africa

Contact

WorldWind South Africa is available free of charge to schools in South Africa. If you are a school teacher you may request a copy of WWSA for your school by sending a message to admin@space.gov.za. Please be sure to include your full name, the subjects and grades that you teach, a full postal address and full contact details for your school.

Please ensure that your school computers meet these minimum requirements before you request a disk.

WWSA can run without an internet connection, but will be limited to the files contained on the distribution disk.

We will contact participating schools to assist them to utilise WWSA for pedagogical purposes.


Minimum requirements

The minimum hardware and software requirements for WWSA are as follows:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000, or XP
  • 3D graphics accelerated card, for compatibility please see - http://wiki.worldwindcentral.com/Video_Card_Compatibility
  • Internet connection
  • DirectX 9.0c and Managed DirectX 9.0c (October 2005)
  • .NET Framework 1.1 runtime libraries
  • 700 MHz or higher CPU
  • 128 MB RAM
  • 1.5 GB disk space


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