System Requirements

The following are the system requirements for using Boats Animator (last updated for v0.13).

Operating System

Windows

Windows 7 or later is required.

macOS

macOS 10.13 or later is required.

Linux

Linux builds have been tested on Ubuntu 20.04, but other recent distributions should work. The following dependencies are required to be installed:

gconf2 gconf-service libnotify4 libappindicator1 libxtst6 libnss3x

Hardware

Boats Animator is built on Electron, which is in turn built on Chromium. If your system is able to run recent versions of Chromium based web browsers, then Boats Animator is likely to have similar performance. The following are based on the system requirements for Chromium:

  • Intel Pentium 4 or later with SSE2 support
  • 1 GB of RAM
  • 1 GB of available storage
  • USB webcam

Please see the Supported Cameras page for further information.