CMPUT 229 - Computer Organization and Architecture I

Setting up the RARS Simulator on a Windows machine

To run the RARS simulator you must have Java (Java 1.8+) installed in your system. Java can be downloaded from this page.

Check out this Windows Installation Instructions Video (YouTube) by Noah Gergel.

This guide is for any version of windows. Administrator privileges may be needed.

1. Download the rars.bat batch script.
2. In addition, download the rars.jar jar file. The jar file is the actual RARS simulator, and the batch script is just a launch pad to boot it up.
3. Move these two files to the same directory. Then to open RARS, run the batch script. This can be done by either double clicking rars.bat or right clicking it and then choosing the "Open" option.
4. Some versions of Java allow jar files to be run directly. If this is the case with your version of Java, feel free to delete rars.bat and run rars.jar directly like any other executible.

To uninstall, simply delete both rars.jar and rars.bat.