This is not the full documentation, but is provided as an aid to working
with the shareware version of Astral Windows. If you use this product
regularly you must register it.
System Requirements: Windows 3.1, mouse device, Visual Basic VBRUN100.DLL,
Adobe Type Manager for displaying astrological fonts. NB a TrueType version
of this font is on the way.
Installation: There should be three files associated with this package,
ASTRAL.ZIP, ASTROL.ZIP and ASTRAL.TXT. Create a directory on your hard disk
called Astral. Copy the files into this directory and use PKUNZIP.EXE to
decompress these files (PKUNZIP can be obtained from the same shareware
library or BBS you downloaded the files from). You then need to install
Kenneth Hirst's Astrol_91 font if you want to display or print the
astrological symbols. Use Adobe Type Manager to do this. Then run ASTRAL
either from the Program Manager or directly from the DOS command line. Note:
Astral Windows will not run without the .VBX or .DLL files which are
contained in ASTRAL.ZIP.
File Menu
Open
Lets you open existing Astral Windows data files with the extension .AWW.
A small number of these files are provided with the shareware version -- a
large number come with the registered version. PC Astral Windows will also
read Astral Windows for DOS .DAT files.
Save
Lets you save data you have calculated with the extension .AWW. The DOS
version of Astral Windows is unable to read these files.
Save As
Lets you give a different name to your data. This option is useful if, for
example, you have calculated a sidereal solar return (SSR) and don't want to
overwrite your original data.
Fonts
If you want to change the font for display or printing, select this menu
item.
Print
Lets you select which data you want to print. If you click on All, the other
available print options are selected but you can individually deselect them.
When you click on OK, a printer dialog box comes up on screen. This allows
you to set up or change your printer and paper size. Landscape mode is not
supported in version 1.10 of Astral Windows. A4 portrait gives the best
results for printing astrological wheels.
When you print a chart or birth data, the print icon appears.
It will stay on the Astral Windows data bar until printing is completed.
Quit
Leave Astral Windows. Ensure you have saved your data.
Copy Menu
Copy
Copies the active data or chart screen to the Windows clipboard in bitmap
format.
Paste Data
When an active data window is open you can copy it to the Windows clipboard
and then paste it into its own special "Shadow" window. This is useful for comparing data directly. For example, if you paste a wheel into the Shadow window and then load another file, you can select Chart Sidereal and compare it directly with the wheel pasted into the Shadow window. You can do the same with the data tables.
Data Menu
Data Entry
Lets you enter birth data which is then calculated. During the calculation
process, "Calc" appears on the Data Bar.
Names can be no longer than 24 characters.
Dates in the unregistered version must be entered in the format dd/mm/yyyy.
Times must be in terms of the 24 hour clock as hh:mm
The online gazeteer gives a pick list of major cities in the world. If the
place you want is not on this list, you must enter latitude and longitude in
the form, for example, 20N20 and 003W04.
Charts Menu
Tropical Horoscope
The usual method of presenting birth data in the western world. Opens a
child window and draws a wheel with the astrological symbols.
Sidereal Horoscope
Displays and draws sidereal information, calculated using the Fagan
ayanamsha.
Tables Menu
Tropical
Displays the birth data including quadruplicities, triplicities &c. If you
select astro symbols in the Other Customise dialog box, it will display the
glyphs rather than the abbreviations for the signs and planets.
Sidereal
As above, but for sidereal data.
Natal Aspects
Opens a child window and displays aspects of the horoscope. The orbs are
customisable.
Harmonic Aspects
Does the same but shows the navamsha aspects.
Houses
Displays six different house systems -- Regiomantanus, Placidus, Equal,
Morinus, Campanus and Porphyry, Only the first six houses are displayed,
houses 7 to 12 are 180 degrees away from these.
View Harmonics
Sub menus for the twelfth harmonic and also for the Hindu navamshas.
Futures Menu
Solar Returns
Calculates and displays a sidereal solar return for the existing data in the
program. This option destroys the original data -- ensure you have saved it
before selecting Solar Returns
Progressions
Day for a year progressions only available in the registered version of PC
Astral Windows.
Kalachakra and Western
Interpretation is only available in the registered version of PC Astral
Windows.
Yearly Prediction
Only available in the registered version of PC Astral Windows
Time Menu
Britain
Displays a list of the years British Summer Time (BST) was in force. You
need to enter data as Universal Time, so if birth times as given fall within
these dates, you must subtract one or two hours as appropriate.
USA
Shows a list of zone times in the US. Again, times as given must be
converted to Universal Time using these values.
Other Menu
Screen Colour
Lets you change the background colour of the Astral Windows screen while you
are working.
Customise
Various options which you can select including using astrological symbols,
instantly displaying loaded birth data, and changing aspect orbs.
Register
If you use this program you must register it with me. It costs ú40 ($90) and
cheques must be made payable to Mike Magee and sent to 18 Grafton Road,
Harrow, Middlesex HA1 4QT. Use the file INVOICE.TXT supplied with this
shareware to register.
Window Menu
Lets you cascade and tile open windows and lets you arrange icons neatly.
When you open one or more windows, these are added to the Windows menu, so
allowing you to access them using the keyboard.
Help Menu
Quick Help
Brings up a help screen. If you click and hold down the mouse button on the
icon on this screen, the astrological glyphs and their meanings are
displayed.
About Astral Windows
PC Astral Windows (c) 1992. Astro font (c) 1992 Cosmorama Enterprises. All
rights reserved.
If you have any suggestions as to how this program could be improved, please
drop me a line.
Other software and information
Astral Windows for DOS. The DOS version of this program, now in version
6.20. Registered copy costs ú35 (US$70) from the same address as above.
Sanskrit. This Windows program displays the devanagari font and lets you
copy bitmaps to the Windows clipboard. It also contains bitmaps of some
Hindu deities and their yantras. Registered copy costs ú10 (US$20) from the
same address as above.
If you are interested in sidereal astrology, try reading my book, Tantrik
Astrology, published by Mandrake Press, PO Box 250, Oxford OX1 1AP. ISBN
1-869928-10-5.
Mike Magee
18 Grafton Road
Harrow
Middlesex HA1 4QT
081 424 8400
October 1992
Kalachakra and Western
Interpretation is only available in the registered version