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- Short: Great Astronomical Program (V39.14)
- Uploader: astegema@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Author: astegema@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Type: misc/sci
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- Version: 39.14
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- Requires: MC68020/68881 or better
- OS 3.0
- Harddrive (17 MB space)
- 4 MB free RAM (absolute minimum)
- MUI 3.6
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- Recommended: MC68040 or MC68060
- OS 3.1
- 16 MB FastRAM
- MUI 3.8
- CyberGfx V2.25+ (=V40.113+) or V3
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- Additionally recommended:
- * The tower.library by Christoph Feck.
- * The rgfx.datatype by me.
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- VERY IMPORTANT:
-
- Digital Almanac was using the public MUI-class Xpk.mcc from V39.9 to V39.13.
- I was forced to remove this class by several reasons.
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- 1. It was not a registered MUI-class.
- 2. The Installer was unable to detect the version ID, so Xpk.mcc was not copied
- to MUI's classes !!
- 3. The consequence was, that DA did not start, when Xpk.mcc was missing !
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- THIS VERSION SHOULD FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU HAD WITH V39.9 to V39.13 !!
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- IMPORTANT:
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- Digital Almanac V39.14 requires the unpacked data archive of "DAlmanac_Data.lha"
- V39.6 or V39.7 !!
- This exe-archive contains an extra installer script for installing the data archive.
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- For complete installation, follow these steps:
- * Download both archives.
- * Unpack the exe archive.
- * Start the exe installer.
- * Start the data installer.
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- A French catalog is available, but not a French documentation,
- because I don't speak French :-)
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- INTRODUCTION:
-
- Digital Almanac is one of the best programs for hobby astronomers (and professionals ?)
- available for the Amiga !
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- It offers:
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- * Complete SAO star catalog (258998 stars) and additional 130000 stars from the PPM catalog.
- * About 40000 deep-sky objects (Messier, NGC, IC, UGC, Abell, Zwicky and other misc objects).
- * About 36000 minor planets and asteroids as well as the comets Halley, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp
- and others.
- * Highly accurate calculation of Moon and planets with JPL's integration tables (DE404).
- (Accuracy partly <0.1'' over a period of some thousand years !!).
- * Textures for five planets.
- * Moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
- * Milky way structure.
- * View the sky from any solar system object.
- * Animation mode (also saving in IFF-ANIM format !!).
- * Loading and saving of configuration files.
- * Highly optimized algorithms for maximum speed, mostly written in assembler.
- * Lots of configuration possibilities.
- * Online and menu help with HELP-key and MUI's bubblehelp.
- * Export of ephemeris tables (printer or file).
- * CyberGfx High- and Truecolor mode support.
- * Picture galery creation.
- * User editable database of orbital elements (asteroids or comets).
- * Recognizes CPU for maximum speed.
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- And of course lots of bug fixes made in the previous versions.
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- Included in the archive are two project files of a solar and a lunar eclipse ready to watch !
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- THIS PROGRAM IS SHAREWARE!
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- Following features are restricted for non registered users:
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- * Deep-sky catalog access limited to the Messier catalog.
- * All saving functions are disabled.
- * No hardcopy.
- * No changing site to a different planet, only Earth enabled.
- * No detailed course of eclipses.
- * No picture galery.
- * Plotting stars only to 6m.
- * Plotting other objects only to 10m.
- * No changing of pixelsize.
- * No events in the calendar.
- * The program will terminate after 20 min and all 5 min a requester will appear.
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- Read the guide file for more information and how to become a registered user or
- visit my homepage.
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- Internet: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~astegema
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- Changes since V39.13:
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- 03-Mar-98 V39.14
- * UGC catalog recompiled. All invalid entries should now be fixed.
- * The rgfx.datatype had to be removed from the archive.
- * Updated guide.
- * Removed usage of public Xpk.mcc and made it a private class.
- It caused too many problems and the installer also was unable to detect
- version id. This caused a heavy failure during startup of DA.
- * There were no error messages during startup with problems. This has been fixed.
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