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- PROCYON XL - 1.00
- ------------
- Official Release date: July 2001
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- DESCRIPTION
- ============
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- For several years, PROCYON is the most extensive Astronomy program for the
- Series 3a/3c and 5/5mx. With the release of the Series 7, many requests came to port
- the program for the new Psion machine. Here we release the first (and only)
- astronomy program for the Series 7 and call it PROCYON XL.
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- PROCYON XL: the neXt generation
- ==============================
- With this version, we start a new generation of PROCYON that takes
- advantage of the larger size of the screen of the Series 7 as well as of the support of colors.
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- For further news on the development of PROCYON XL, consult our homepages:
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- http://members.home.nl/psion/procyonx.html
- http://www.sussenbach.myweb.nl
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- The Light version of PROCYON XL is free for non-commercial use and can be
- considered freeware. However, you can also see this version as a shareware
- program and once you register you will have added benefits. For details,
- look at the above-mentioned homepage.
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- INSTALLATION
- =============
- PROCYON XL installation is the same like every other well-behaved program.
-
- Make sure you can see the SYSTEM directory on your Psion 7.
- Go to either C:\System\Apps\ or D:\System\Apps\
- 'Make a new folder' and name it PROCYON
- Do not change this name or else you will not see the program on the Extra's bar.
- Copy all the Procyon files into this directory.
- When you press the 'Extras' button, a PROCYON X Icon will appear.
- Put RMRAlarm.opx in C:\SYSTEM\OPX.
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- ATTENTION
- ==========
- Be careful to copy only the files to your Psion 7 (do not convert them), as
- they are already in the Psion 7 native format.
-
- If your Psion uses a comma ',' to separate decimals as in 2,03 then you have
- to switch your decimal separator to dot instead of the comma therefore,
- PROCYON recognizes 2.03 as 2+(3/100) instead of 2030.
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- For more information, copy the File PROCYON.HLP to your Psion 7 and double-tap
- the file to read.
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- PROCYON XL: a LIGHT and a PROFESSIONAL Version
- =============================================
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- You are currently using the Light version of PROCYON XL.
- This version is FREEWARE. You can use this version in its present state for
- free for as long as you like and you do not need to register to keep using it.
-
- However, it is your choice to consider this version as SHAREWARE and register
- to receive a 7PROCYON.KEY file. This file switches the Freeware version into
- the Registered PRO version. You will also need the separately available
- Auxiliary pack with extra databases.
- Registration is a one-time process, once you receive you 7PROCYON.KEY file in
- your email (it's one a few bytes) you copy this to the same directory
- containing all the files.
- Every new version of PROCYON XL will detect this Key-file and switch to PRO
- mode. Therefore, all future versions are free, once registered.
-
- Of course, you can also get all future PROCYON XL Light versions for free.
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- Differences between the LIGHT and the PRO version.
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- * You can search for any specific Constellations.
- * Calculate when the Jovian Red Spot is visible and watch the Red Spot on the
- face of Jupiter. You can adjust the value of the latitude of the Red Spot.
- * You can establish the dates of Lunar Eclipse and view the Moon in the shadow
- of the Earth.
- * Real pictures of all Messier-nebulae instead of only a picture representing
- the type.
- * Search all objects of the NGC Catalogue instead of only the first 100 in the
- Light version.
- * High precision mode up to a few arc-seconds (see 0.99 additions).
- * Yale-database extended to magnitude 5 instead of 4 in the Light version.
- * Reference Stars in the Zoom-window up to magnitude 7.
- * Constellations names in Main-view and Zenith-view.
- * The start and finish of the civil, nautical and astronomical twilights are shown
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- REGISTRATION
- =============
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- You can register at the following places:
- * REGSOFT (# 4583) $30 http://www.RegSoft.com ID 4584
- * REGNET (# 1703) $35 http://www.swregnet.com/1703p.htm ID 1703
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- Pedro van Can and John Sussenbach, July 2001