Impulse

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Impulse

Next generation digital distribution platform. Developer: Stardock Latest release: 3.21 / April, 2009 OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista Genre: OS Customization License: Freeware Website: Link to Official Site

Impulse is Stardock’s new state of the art digital distribution platform. Impulse allows users to quickly and easily find their favorite game or software, download and update automatically to their PC. Impulse also has many next generation community features, such as: blogging, friends list, live chat, game matchmaking, achievements, rankings, news and more!

Contents 1 User Experience 1.1 What Impulse Does 1.2 How to Use Impulse 1.2.1 The Basics 1.2.2 Advanced Options 2 Features 3 Screenshots 4 History 4.1 Current Version 4.2 Version History 5 System Requirements 6 Links 6.1 Product Information 6.2 Downloads 6.3 Documentation & Help 6.4 Tutorials 7 Notes & References

User Experience

What Impulse Does

Impulse is Stardock’s new state of the art digital distribution platform. Impulse allows users to quickly and easily find their favorite game or software and download it automatically to their PC.

How to Use Impulse

The Basics

Introduction to the basic features of the application.

Advanced Options

Further detail on options for users wanting more control.

Features

• Doesn’t need to be on-line to play single player games.
• Supports all types of PC software (games, applications, utilities, etc.).
• Hundreds of games, applications, utilities, themes, and more available to purchase or free download.
• Includes the Impulse dock which lets users organize all their programs and data together regardless of where it came from.
• Next-generation community features integrated in. Make friends and play games together on-line, start a blog, chat, and more.
• Delivers a next generation virtual platform that developers can freely use to add exciting new features to their games and apps
• Once a game or software has been downloaded from Impulse, it no longer needs to be running in order to launch the desired program.
• The ability to support third-party games and software.
• The ability to enable third-parties to name their price and after review have it available to users.
• Impulse integrates its next-generation social networking features on the "Community" tab, that lets users have friends, chat about games, create blogs and much more.

Screenshots

History

Current Version

3.21, April, 2009 (Phase 3)

Version History

3.00, April, 2009 (Phase 3)

2.00, August 28, 2008 (Phase 2)

1.00, June 17, 2008 (Phase 1)

System Requirements

• Windows XP (32-bit)/Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)
• Internet Explorer 7.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0
• 512MB RAM
• Athlon/Pentium III (1GHz or higher)
• 1GB HD space recommended
• Internet connectivity.
• Impulse account (same as: Stardock.net, WinCustomize.com or GalCiv2.com), (free to create, if you do not have one).

Links

Product Information

• Link to Product Page

Downloads

• Impulse - Web Installer
• Impulse - Full Install

Documentation & Help

• Impulse Guide - instruction manual

Tutorials

• Impulse: Requesting and Managing Friends
• Guided Tour: Purchasing Through the Impulse Store

Notes & References

Impulse Road Map by Frogboy (Stardock CEO).