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- Short: Demo of Digital Almanac III
- Author: achimste@gmx.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Uploader: achimste@gmx.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Type: misc/sci
-
- Demo bugfix
-
- This is a small demonstration of Digital Almanac III, the best planetarium software
- available for the Amiga.
-
- Please note: Currently only a German documentation is available. An English catalog is supplied,
- but no English documentation.
-
-
- *** Requirements ***
-
- o Any Amiga with at least OS 3.0, MC68020, AGA and some MB free FastRAM.
- o MUI 3.8
-
-
- *** Recommended ***
-
- To get a taste of the real speed, you need a PPC with WarpOS (V15+) and a CGX-compatible
- graphic card.
- You need the openurl.library to read the manual from within the program.
-
-
- *** Restrictions of the demonstration ***
-
- o Just some thousand stars limited to +5.5 mag (for information).
- o Stars output limited to constellation of Orion.
- o No support for the Hubble GSC star catalog.
- o Deep-sky database only contains the Messier objects.
- o Only one comet in database.
- o Time range limited to year 2000.
- o No printer output.
- o All saving functions are disabled. No screenshots, no saving of animations.
- o Only one texture provided for the Moon to show new rendering feature on highcolor screens.
- o No Internet-updating for databases.
- o Simple looking listviews in the GUI.
- o No support for embedding pictures.
- o Ephemeris tables limited to 5 rows.
- o The 68k demo contains no FPU instructions. So some calculations will be very slow.
- Only the WarpOS demo makes use of the FPU.
-
-
- *** This is not restricted in the demonstration ***
-
- o All drawing modes are enabled (pixel, area, spectre).
- o Detailed worldmap showing night and day on Earth, including the shadow area during a solar eclipse.
- o Eclipse calculation enabled.
- o View sky from off-Earth locations.
-
-
- *** This is what you get in the full version ***
-
- o One million stars internal up to +16 mag.
- o Embedding of Hubble GSC star catalog with about 25 million stars.
- o Special functions to increase drawing speed of star databases.
- o More than 100,000 Deep-sky objects from many different catalogs.
- o More than 80,000 asteroids and minor planets. Database can directly be updated via Internet.
- o More than 1,000 comets.
- o Printing high-resolution star maps.
- o Saving screenshots in various graphic formats.
- o Creating animations in IFF-ANIM, QuickTime and MPEG format.
- o Embedded detailed HTML documentation with OpenURL.
- o Use of NListview by Gilles Masson for improved GUI handling.
- o Image collection of more than 600 astronomical objects.
- o Support for controlling your telescope with an external message port.
- o Additionally two more different program versions for the 68020/FPU and 68040/60 for maximum speed.
-
-
- *** Attention ***
-
- Currently only a German and an English catalog file is available.
- The HTML documentation contains the manual of the full version, but only in German !
- If you like to read it in English, please visit my homepage. It includes the possibility
- of automatic translation via www.translator.com.
-
-
- *** Contact me ***
-
- If you are interested in the full version, please visit my homepage at:
- http://www.soft-ware.de/dalmanac
- There you can read all you need to know about prices (upgrade from DA II or new user).
-
-
- *** Note for hackers and crackers ***
-
- Hey folks... I know some of you tried to hack DA II to use the restricted functions when no
- keyfile is available.
- Forget it here... some thousand code lines concerning the restrictions have been simply removed.
- Also forget about using the data files of DA II... no chance.
-
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