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- Contents of the Starbase One CD Rom:
- Introduction:
-
- Welcome to the Starbase One CD Rom. It consists largely of files collected
- from the Starbase One BBS, plus some additional catalogues and animations.
- You will also find all the collections of shareware that Starbase One has
- offered at Astrofest '94 and Astrofest '96.
-
- This text file will help you get the most out of the CD Rom, describing
- what is in each directory.
-
- Some general notes:
-
- Images are in JPEG or GIF format, and you will need a viewer. See the
- astrofest disk collections for some possibilities. Astrofest disks all
- have a SHOWME batch file, which will help you install. Look for a
- FILES.BBS file in large collection directories - these will describe
- the individual files.
-
- Please note also that most of the programs provided are SHAREWARE - this
- is a try-before-you-buy process, not free software. If you find yourself
- using a program a lot, you should send the author the amount requested,
- which will often bring you an enhanced version, a manual, or other benefit.
-
- If you get into trouble, send an email to:
-
- support@starbase1.compulink.co.uk
-
- and we will try and help you out. Please note that we are NOT responsible
- for supporting the programs, this is the authors job.
-
- You can also make contact via the Starbase One BBS - in the UK on:
- (44) 0171-703-3593 or (44) 0171-701-6914 I believe that Starbase One's
- collection of astronomy and space files is second to none in the world.
-
- There is more information in \A96\DISK8, including a list of files,
- a help file for using the BBS, and other useful tools.
-
- Starbase One is on the World Wide Web at:
-
- http:www.ukindex.co.uk/ukastro/sb1main.html
-
- CD Rom directories:
-
- \A94
-
- This contains the shareware disks offered at Astrofest '94. You will find
- a file called CATALOG.TXT in this directory, describing what is in each of
- the subdirectories. Each subdirectory corresponds to a 720k floppy disk,
- and contains a file called SHOWME.BAT. Typing SHOWME in a directory will
- describe installation of the programs. Some programs have since been
- upgraded, by progs in the A96 directory.
-
- \A96
-
- This contains the shareware disks offered at Astrofest '96. You will find
- a file called CATALOG.TXT in this directory, describing what is in each of
- the subdirectories. Each subdirectory corresponds to a 1.44mb floppy disk,
- and contains a file called SHOWME.BAT. Typing SHOWME in a directory will
- describe installation of the programs.
-
- Please note that due to restrictions by the authors of Paint Shop Pro, it
- was not possible to include this excellent image editor on the CD.
-
- \ANIMATE
-
- This contains 110 megabytes of FLI/FLC animations, ready to view.
- Just type PLAYER and you will get a rolling slideshow of the animations,
- from DOS or Windows. Note that the more memory you have, the more likely
- they are to play smoothly - you will probably get best results from DOS.
-
- \HST
-
- This directory contains over 8 Megabytes of images and press releases from
- the Hubble Space Telescope.
-
- \HSTBIG
-
- This directory contain some High Resolution versions of Hubble Space
- Telescope. These can be VERY large when unpacked, so you might need
- a lot of memory to view them properly.
-
- \SL9
-
- This directory contains nearly 18 Mb of Shoemaker Levy images,
- animations and the like of the Shoemaker Levy 9 impact. Note that the
- file FILES.BBS contains descriptions of the files in the directory.
-
- \IMAGES
-
- The Images Directory is further broken down into:
-
- \APOLLO General Apollo material
- \APOLLO11 Apollo 11 material
- \APOLLO13 Apollo 13 images
- \PLANETS There is a separate directory for each planet under this one.
- There is also a LUNARORB directory with Lunar Orbiter images.
- \GEMINI There is a separate directory under this for each mission.
- \MESSIER This contains an image of each messier object.
-
- \APO13OREV This contains the report and diagrams from the Apollo 13
- accident review.
-
- \HOMEPLAN This contains the Shareware program Home Planet - this a BIG
- program, and is a pain to download or order on floppy disk.
-
- Run the HOMEPLAN.EXE from your hard drive, then run
- SETUP.EXE
-
- It is VERY greedy on hard disk space. (20 Mb+)
-
- hp2-9512.exe is an upgrade to be added after you install.
-
- \CATALOG This directory has many astronomical catalogues beneath it. To
- save large and messy uncompressing to your hard drive, these
- have been provided in an uncompressed format.
-
- You will find a file LISTCAT.TXT in this directory, describing
- each directory beneath it.
-
- \catalog\rngc The Revised NGC Catalogue.
- \catalog\ugc The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies
- \catalog\pln The Strasbourg Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebula
- \catalog\gcvs4 The General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th Edition
- \catalog\mercg Merged Catalogue of Galaxies
- \catalog\qagn3 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
- \catalog\ytp Yale Trignometric Paralax Catalogue.
- \catalog\sao Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogue
- \catalog\yalezone The Yale Zone Catalogue
- \catalog\rasc Misc Royal Astronomical Society of Canada catalogue of ojects
- for observers.
- \catalog\nearby Photometric data for nearby stars
- \catalog\snr Galactic Supernova Remnants
- \catalog\reflect Catalogue of Reflection Nebula
- \catalog\ldn Lynds Catalogue of Dark Nebula
- \catalog\lbn Lynds Catalogue of Bright Nebula
- \catalog\hII Catalogue of H II regions
- \catalog\constell Constellation Boundary Data
- \catalog\binorbit Orbits of visual binary stars
- \catalog\star25pc Stars within 25 parsecs of the Sun.
- \catalog\paralax Trignometric Stellar Parallaxes (1991)
- \catalog\gc General Catalogue of 33342 stars
-
- Copyright Information:
-
- This collection is copyright 1996 Starbase One. Copyright on individual
- programs and files remains with the authors. Many images, particularly
- those from the manned space program and Hubble Space Telescope are
- copyright NASA. You should NOT redistribute the floppy disk collections
- with the Windows installer, (with the Starbase One registration).
- Most animations in the \ANIMATE directory copyright Nick Stevens.
- Please contact the support email address if you require more information:
-
- support@starbase1.compulink.co.uk