Short: Digital Universe demo 1.02, Astronomy s/w Author: support@syz.com (Syzygy Research Support) Uploader: support@syz.com (Syzygy Research Support) Type: biz/demo Replaces: biz/demo/Dig_Universe.lha This is a demo version of "The Digital Universe", a complete astronomy package for the Amiga computer. It is capable of rendering images of the night sky from anywhere on Earth with an unprecedented level of accuracy and detail. Due to space considerations, the features of the registered version cannot be provided here. Either download the package and read the "ProductInfo" document contained within, or connect to our World Wide Web (WWW) site, the address of which is given near the end of this document. Restrictions on the demo version include: 1. Stars, galaxies, nebulae, and clusters are only displayed if they lie within a relatively small "rectangular" region of the sky. 2. You cannot get the demo to generate a view of the sky for any date later than December 31, 1995. 3. Only a small portion of the 800 pages of multimedia hypertext is provided with the demo. Current Version: 1.02 Changes since version 1.01: =========================== New features ------------ - Now, numerical reports can be output to the screen as well as the printer, or saved to disk. - A few useful keyboard shortcuts dealing with time were added: 'a' - toggles to automatic time advancement 'm' - toggles to manual time advancement 't' - sets "The Digital Universe" to use the current time - 10 more user-settable fields of view were added, bringing the total to 20. The first ten are used by pressing a number key (above the 'qwerty' keyboard. The last ten are used by holding down the SHIFT key while doing so. - The string gadget in "Find Star", "Find Galaxy", and "Search Hypertext" is automatically activated when their respective windows are opened. Bug fixes --------- - MUI 2.3 and 3.1 have problems in dealing with >V34 amigaguide.library (it can only deal with a single amigaguide file, and "The Digital Universe" requires 9 separate flies. To get around this problem, "The Digital Universe" pre-loads V34 amigaguide.library, regardless of the version of amigaguide.library normally used on your system. This works fine, but has one small problem - V34 amigaguide.library was never meant to deal with screens having more than 32 colors, and caused the system to crash if a hypertext window was brought up on such a screen. The interim solution is to restrict screen depths to 32 colors, and this modification was made to V1.02. Of course, when a future version of MUI and amigaguide.library >V34 are happy with one another, we'll be removing the temporary restriction. - If you'd accidentally deleted your Mode_Names icon from your WBStartup drawer, your Amiga would not know the names for different screen modes. "The Digital Universe" previously never anticipated this scenario, and crashed if it couldn't find any valid screen mode names. V1.02 has fixed this problem, providing the system with a screen even if there is not a valid name for it. This stops the program from crashing, but of course the best solution is to restore the Mode_Names icon from your original Workbench disks. - Western Australia Daylight Time and Western Australia Standard Time offsets were wrong. They've been fixed from their previous values of +8 and +7 respectively to the correct values of +9 and +8. - Animations generated on overscanned screens with WB3.1 would sometimes be corrupted. We believe we've found and fixed the problem (special thanks to Chris Gray for his incredible patience in helping us track it down). Hypertext updates ----------------- - Product information sheet added to the online help, to provide users with a quick reference of the software's features - Help for the FOVs was expanded to describe the 20 fields instead of just the original 10. - Help for "View Report" option of report generator was added Changes since version 1.00: =========================== New features ------------ - In the Display/Object preferences window, a new option entitled "Show Titlebar" is now available. If the user disables this gadget, the title bar at the top of the screen is removed, and menu options are only visible while the right mouse button is held down. The online help was modified to reflect this change as well. - If the user wishes to view the effects of proper motion and has the software set up to draw constellation figures, the figures will change shape as the stars move around. Note that this change invalidates the second paragraph under "Constellation Figures" on page 3-24 of the user manual. Bug fixes --------- - Three minor Enforcer hits which occurred during the introduction sequence have been eliminated. - After the introduction sequence, the audio filter is turned back on. It was previously left off. ===================================================================== For more information on the registered version of "The Digital Universe", please check out our Web page with the following URL: http://www.syz.com You can also address questions via Internet email to support@syz.com. Sales inquiries should be directed to sales@syz.com. Of course, you can contact us at our postal address as well: Syzygy Research & Technology Ltd. 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