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- CyberSky for Windows 95
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- Shareware Version 2.0b
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- Copyright ⌐ 1997 Stephen Michael Schimpf
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- This VENDOR.TXT file contains information for shareware distributors,
- disk vendors, BBS sysops, and computer clubs who wish to distribute
- CyberSky.
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- Categories and Keywords
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- CYBERSKY WINDOWS SCIENCE ASTRONOMY PLANETARIUM STARS CONSTELLATIONS PLANETS
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- Short Description
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- CyberSky is a colorful, easy-to-use planetarium program for Windows.
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- Long Description
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- CyberSky is a colorful, easy-to-use, and very educational program that
- transforms your computer screen into a planetarium, allowing you to
- learn about astronomy by exploring the sky in the past, present, and
- future!
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- CyberSky can truly be thought of as a desktop planetarium, because it
- duplicates the features of a traditional planetarium on your computer
- screen. CyberSky provides an excellent way for you to learn the names
- and locations of the constellations, the names of the stars, and to
- become familiar with the motions of the sun, moon, and planets across
- the sky. CyberSky provides a superb, innovative, and motivating learning
- environment. It places the sky under your control.
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- If you've already learned these basics, CyberSky is a great way to
- conveniently check out "what's up" tonight without leaving your desk.
- Or, use it to find out what you'll be able to see next weekend, or next
- month. Some people use CyberSky to learn to identify the stars and
- constellations they'll be able to see for the first time when they take
- a vacation to another hemisphere. And, don't forget the past! What did
- the sky look like on the day you were born?
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- One of CyberSky's most powerful and educational features is its ability
- to animate the display, allowing you to see "movies" of the changing
- appearance of the sky over time. Many of the most basic and interesting
- astronomical phenomena can only be observed over days or months of time,
- or by observing the sky in the distant past or future. CyberSky
- compresses these time spans into minutes, thereby allowing you to learn
- things about astronomy that previously would have required days or weeks
- of stargazing or a trip to a planetarium to learn.
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- If you have an interest in astronomy, CyberSky will provide hours of fun
- and education for you and your family.
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- System Requirements
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- Personal computer running Windows 95, a 486 or faster processor, 8 MB of
- memory, about 2 MB of disk space, a video card capable of displaying 256
- or more colors, and a Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device.
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- Distribution Information
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- CyberSky is copyrighted software marketed as "shareware". It must never
- be described as "public domain" or "free" software. Any vendor
- publication that lists CyberSky must contain a clear explanation of the
- shareware concept and this information must be visible to customers
- before they pay a fee to the vendor.
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- Any distribution of CyberSky must contain all original files in their
- unmodified form. CyberSky should be distributed as a ZIP archive with
- one of the following names.
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- Windows 3.1 Windows 95
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- CYBERSKY.ZIP CYBERSKY.ZIP
- CYBSKY20.ZIP CYBSKY20.ZIP
- CYBSKY16.ZIP CYBSKY32.ZIP
- CSKY1620.ZIP CSKY3220.ZIP
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- It is permitted to split an archive into smaller parts if necessary and
- to modify the names of those files in a reasonable manner. It is also
- permitted to convert a distribution file into a self-extracting
- executable file, in which case the file should have one of the above
- names with the ZIP extension replaced by an EXE extension.
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- Before distributing CyberSky, please determine whether the version you
- have is the most recent version available. CyberSky is always available
- from the CyberSky Home Page at the address listed below, as well as from
- the Astronomy Forum and other forums on CompuServe.
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- Registration Information
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- A single copy of the registered version of CyberSky costs US$ 25 plus
- US$ 3 for shipping & handling. Site licenses are available for educational
- institutions at very reasonable prices! Complete information about
- purchasing the registered version of CyberSky is available on the Start
- menu under "CyberSky" as well as in its Help file.
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- Contact Information
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- E-mail. If you'd like to contact me as quickly as possible, please send
- e-mail to the following address.
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- CyberSky@compuserve.com
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- Postal mail. Send a letter to the following address via postal mail.
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- Stephen Michael Schimpf
- 2444 West 230th Street
- Torrance, CA 90501-5242
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- Telephone. Call the following number between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM
- Pacific time Monday through Friday only.
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- 310-530-6766
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- World Wide Web. Use the following address to visit the CyberSky Home
- Page on the World Wide Web.
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- http://cybersky.simplenet.com/
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