Subject:  ASTRO: V2.3 Astrology
Author:  M. Fabian & K. Hirst
Uploaded By:  WhoaWah
Date:  3/30/1997

File:  AW232E.ZIP (2124708 bytes) 
Estimated Download Time (33221 baud):  < 17 minutes
Download Count:  5192

Equipment:  386 or better
Needs:  An UnZIPing Program and Windows 3.x or greater

Keywords:  Fabian, Hirts, Charts, Horoscopes, Win31

Type:      Shareware

An enhanced Astrology-Program for Windows 3.1/95 that enables a user to compute his/her own natal; transit; synastry and composite chart.

The program produces an extensive text evaluation for all charts, and uses 6 different House systems.

Changes: Added Chiron, Lilith, non-gender sysnasty, composite charts.

Uploaded by an AOL Astro-World user, (screen name : WhoaWah )  for Kenneth Hirst, author of interpretations, and Marcus Fabian, programmer.

Technical Features:
Astro-World is an Astrology-shareware-program for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 with print and screen interpretations for Radix (Natal), Synastry and Transit Horoscopes. The printed natal chart evaluation consists of about 30 pages.

Six different house systems are included: Koch, Placidus, Regiomontanus, Campanus, Vehlow, as well as Equal-House.

Astro-World 2.3 is capable of the following features:

* Radix-Horoscope, on-screen and printer (32-40 pages).
* Transit-Horoscope: daily, or listed for a defined period.
* Synastry-Horoscope, on-screen and printer (about 10 pages). 
* Composite-Horoscope, on-screen and printer (about 8 pages).
* An integrated data-base for people and places. Both data-bases can be expanded to around 2.1 billion entries.
* Up to ten Horoscopes can be visualized simultaneously in different windows on the screen.
* Display windows include Horoscopes, Legend, Aspectarium, Chart Data and Aspect toggle pad.
* Dynamic toggle (on and off) of chosen aspects using an Aspect toolbox.
* An Aspect-toolbox allows for switching any aspect on and off interactively. The result is dynamically shown in the Horoscope chart.
* A hand crafted TrueType Astrology font.
* Font/Symbol customization: such as color, position and sizing for screen and printer.
* Chart customization: including line widths, colors, position and sizing.
* An integrated database for people and places. Both databases can be expanded to about 2.1 billion entries.
* The included database of places has over 2000 localities. Additional  location data-bases are available, sorted by country, and area/state for the USA (>150,000 places worldwide).
* Names and locations can be imported via ASCII files.
* A detailed context sensitive on-line Help.
* An extensive "How to Learn Astrology Study Guide."

The Professional Version additionally contains:
* Optional redirection of text output to a file (ASCII or RTF structure), for further formatting with popular Word processors.
* The provision to add your own texts to the evaluation database, and use these texts in conjunction or instead of Astro-Worlds.
* Your personal name on the footer of each page as the licensee.

To run, launch: ASTRO.EXE

Documentation: AWINSTAL.TXT