Search Greek and Latin. No Internet needed.
Are you aggravated with the 1996-vintage Thesaurus Linguae Graecae search engine that never seems to do what you tell it to? Is Perseus down yet again an hour before your big talk at the APA and you still have a few references to check? Your complaints have been heard; Andromeda is the answer. It began as the work of one annoyed graduate student reciting the engineer's plebiscite: "There has to be a better way of doing this."
Andromeda combines an elegant and simple user experience with the power to dig deep into massive archives of raw, unindexed text. Out of the box it supports the Packard Humanities Institute's Latin archive and the TLG Institute's massive compendium of Greek spanning Homer to Ioannes Tzetzes. Enter complex searches and get answers in seconds.
Andromeda was created in part to prove that the future of technology in Classics isn't dependent on the support of large institutions like the TLG Institute or the Perseus Project, which, like all academic bureaucracies, are more interested in their own continued existence than the presence of disruptive technology. Its lifespan as an application has probably ended along with its author's academic career, but it continues to be useful to anyone who uses the Packard Humanities Institute's Latin CD, or, spectaculum mirabile, still has a license to the original TLG CD-ROMs.
Plug In and Go
Antiquity with Apple simplicity.
Andromeda takes advantage of Mac OS X's powerful Cocoa framework to make nearly all of its features extensible through plugins. If you have a new set of digital editions of classical texts, a few lines of code are all you need to start working in Andromeda.
100% Unicode
Industry standard.
Gone are the dark ages of "Greek fonts," when putting Greek on a computer screen meant transcribing it using mangled Latin script and applying one of a dozen mutually incompatible typefaces to transmute it into Hellenic script. Our apps are built using Unicode, the international standard text interchange format. If you want to email some text or send it to a paper you're writing, it's as easy as copy and paste.
Turbo C
Put your pedal to the metal.
All of Andromeda's most low-level, compute-intensive tasks are written in hand-optimized C to help your computer put the pedal to the metal.
Cite and Write
Handouts just got easier.
It can be just as time-consuming to enter and correctly format citations as it is to find them. If you have a list of sections of classical texts you need, use Andromeda's Handout Tool. It copies out the text for you complete with bibliography for the editions it uses. Now your only problem ten minutes before your lecture is where to find a hot cup of coffee.
Get it!
You can download Andromeda today from this site.
Support
It's a sad fact of life that any app can malfunction, and Andromeda is no exception. But don't panic! First, check out the Bug Bottle to see if your issue's been reported by someone else. There might already be a fix in the works or a way for you to get around it. If you've been genuinely blessed with the misfortune of encountering a heretofore-unknown problem, drop it in the Bug Bottle and I'll get right on it. I try to answer most new bug reports in 1 business day, but do bear in mind that I'm easily distracted and may not gratify you instantly.
