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Shareware Program Name: ASTROL95
Author: John Halloran
P.O. Box 75713
Los Angeles, CA 90075
Registration Fee: $27.95 (+ $2.00 diskette handling charges)
System Requirements
The astrology program operates on IBM-compatible personal computers
that have at least 256K RAM. The color U.S. map, black & white
hi-resolution world map, and graphic chartwheel features require a
CGA or Hercules monographics card.
Features
* Calculates the zodiac sign position of the ten planets,
including the sun and moon, and the twelve house cusps for any
date, time, and place; plus moon's nodes and Part of Fortune.
* Accurate to within 1 minute for all planets for period 1800-
2000 A.D.; for distant time periods accurate to within several
minutes for all planets except Pluto which is within 2 degrees.
* Default for calculations is Tropical zodiac and Placidus house
system; user can custom install program for Sidereal zodiac
and/or the following house systems: Koch, Campanus, Equal
House - Western Style, and Equal House - Eastern Style.
* Default screen output is non-graphic format with a prompt to
print to any printer; can redisplay chart as high resolution
black & white graphic chartwheel which can be printed to any
printer which supports graphics.
* Fifteen public domain graphics printer drivers which provide
alternatives to the DOS GRAPHICS command are included on the
distribution diskette. Also included is a utility that
enables a Hercules monochrome graphics card to simulate a CGA
in order to display CGA graphics.
* Displays maps of the United States in color or of the world in
hi-res B&W on screen and shows the longitude, latitude and (on
US) the time zone for any spot to which you move the cursor.
* Displays the exact longitude, latitude, and time zone of 50
U.S. cities and 50 world cities.
* Can save unlimited number of calculated charts to file.
* Displays angle and orb for nine aspects between the planets,
ascendant, and midheaven both for calculated and saved charts.
* Displays the midpoints between the planets, ascendant, and
midheaven, as well as midpoint/planet conjunctions.
* User can customize whether the program treats the Ascendant,
Midheaven, moon's nodes and Part of Fortune as planets in
chart display/comparisons.
* For purposes of transits or chart synastry displays the
aspects between the first chart calculated/reviewed and an
unlimited number of additional charts. Calculates indexes of
communication to determine compatibility.
* Conducts rapid searches for compatible matches between the
charts in the database according to user-defined criteria of
sex, age, and minimum required mutual communication and
compatibility index levels.
* Calculates a list that shows when the transiting planets will
form aspects to any saved chart.
* User can customize the starting planet for the transits list
to be any planet from the sun to Pluto and the list period to
be from one month to twelve months.
* Users with color graphics can customize the text color and
background color of the program's text screens.
Release 9.5 New Features
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* Users can now permanently customize the astrology program. ASTROL95
will read custom parameters from file CUSTOM.AST created by running
CUSTOM95.COM program. Includes preferred house system, preferred
zodiac, delta factor if sidereal zodiac is selected, whether to
treat the Ascendant, Midheaven, moon's nodes, or Part of Fortune
as planets in chart display/comparisons, the starting planet and
duration for the transits list, whether hardcopy should be output to
a file or the printer, and the colors of text screens.
* Ability to save one's personal registration code by entering once
in CUSTOM95.COM and automatically retrieving by pressing F1 at the
program registration screen.
* Added option for Equal House System - Eastern Style to produce
output format that is traditional for customers from India.
* Added option for Campanus style house system.
* Added selection to redisplay a chart in either text or graphic
chartwheel format from the Calculation Options menu and the Saved
Chart Review Options menu.
* Added a remarks field to each saved chart - up to twenty characters
in which to record information such as whether Summer Time was in
effect and correctly dealt with, the subject's place of residence,
etc.
* Saved chart now also includes moon's nodes, part of fortune, house
system, zodiac type, and sidereal delta factor if applicable.
* Fixed so that if the user enters an unnecessary carriage return
after responding to a Y/N prompt, he will not be bounced out of
the following display.
* The Transits List screen now displays at the bottom of the screen
the name of the starting planet, the duration of the list, the
estimated calculation time, and a readout of available memory.
Users can now customize the transits list so that the list starts
anywhere from the sun to Pluto. The duration can be from one
to twelve months.
* Revised the documentation for the transits list to make it clear
that the longitude prompt is asking for the geographical longitude
where the subject now lives.
* The only option controlled at the Output Parameter Set-up screen
now is the initial chart display mode, i.e., whether tabular or
graphic format. Even if the initial chart display mode is left
at the tabular default, graphic chartwheels can now be displayed
from the calculation and saved chart review options menus.
* To the lower half of the Output Parameter Set-up screen, added
a display of the custom options selected by the user when running
CUSTOM95.COM.
* Increased editing of birthdate input to warn user if only two
digits are entered for the year.
* Display message for the sake of new users to enter PM and 0 if
the birthtime is unknown.
* At the Find Compatible Charts routine, changed the Inharmonious/
Harmonious Ratio to be Harmonious/Inharmonious and renamed to be
the Compatibility Index. Added the Compatibility Index to the
display when you compare a chart to the first chart calculated or
reviewed.
* Expanded the documentation relating to the Time Zone in Hours.
* Expanded the documentation describing how to set the minimum
communication and compatibility indices at the Find
Compatible Charts screen.
* Added to the transits list the times of conjunctions between
transiting planets and the natal chart house cusps.
* When entering the chart calculation info, will display a warning if
the sign (positive='null'/negative='-') of the longitude does not
match the sign of the time zone.
* Gave users the ability to customize the text color and background
color of the program's text screens. This option is at the
Supplementary Menu of CUSTOM95.COM.
* To this Supplementary Menu, added utility to delete the special
directory which holds the registration code. This is for users
who want to deinstall the astrology program from their hard disk.
Release 9.5 Fixes Since June, 1988
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* On 386 machines the graphic chartwheel was not displaying and the
program sometimes refused to load. Determined that this resulted
from the effect of EXEPACK on a segment close to its maximum size.
Reduced segment size by eliminating unnecessary code.
* Speeded up the compatibility search. Fixed to never add a value
for Ascendant or Midheaven aspects for persons with a birthtime
of PM and 0. This last problem was causing primary and secondary
matches for the same pair to have different totals.
* Cleaned up the File Utilities option to recreate the pointer file.
Will no longer create index to blank records at end of file. Trim
spaces after first and last names.
* Fixed problems with delta factor to sidereal zodiac - when minutes
were from 1 to 9 and when delta was negative and less than one
degree.
* Made map cursor easier to see by changing it from point to arrow.
* Allow user to terminate a compatibility search before it is finished
by pressing the Escape key.
* Further reduced the program size to ensure chartwheel display on
386 machines. Will work on most 386 machines; if not on yours then
your only alternative is to buy AstrolDeluxe for $59.00.
* Fixed a transit routine bug that could get the program in an infinite
loop if a transiting planet changed direction before contacting two
simultaneous aspects such as CJN 4th and OPP MC.
If anyone discovers additional problems or has recommendations for other
additions or changes to the program, my Compuserve ID is 76317,547 and
my address is:
John Halloran
P.O. Box 75713
Los Angeles, CA 90075