Program Title: Astrology for Windows (AST4WIN) Version: 2.2 Program Description: Astrology for Windows is a comprehensive astrology program that accurately calculates and displays the positions of the planets and houses in either the Tropical or Sidereal zodiac and seven house systems over approximately 8,000 years. Users can save calculated birth charts for review, change, or comparison with other charts. The program displays two types of graphic wheels, including one showing aspect lines which can be interactively adjusted. Users can easily look at their current transits or examine astrological compatibility between people's charts. Astrology for Windows includes calculation of solar and lunar returns and transits lists. It features an atlas of 2500 cities and interactive maps of the World, U.S., and Europe. The program includes the new minor planet Chiron and the moon's true nodes. Astrology for Windows is customizable and very easy to use - it features a standard Windows interface and context-sensitive, on-line help. The Windows Help includes an introduction to astrology chapter and bibliography. From the Help Menu one runs a separate demo program showing the additional features of the commercial AstrolDeluxe for Windows on which this program is based. All program text is in an editable file, allowing Astrology for Windows to be easily localized for different languages and countries. Intended User: Astrology hobbyists. This version 2.2 improves the handling of non-English text; the install program lets the user select English, Spanish, Portugese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian and French. You can customize the Part of Fortune so that it is calculated differently for night births. The main screens can be easily resized. The graphic wheel has been optimized to accommodate the Windows 95 task bar. A text report that includes the client birth data legend can be copied to the clipboard for easy pasting into Windows e-mail. There is a button allowing direct access to the city lists from the User Information and Return Chart options screens. Added the Alcabitius house system and correct calculation of circumpolar charts (the first American-distributed program with this). The separate demo of additional features found in AstrolDeluxe, ver. 2, that you can run from the Natal Information screen's Help menu, has been made more interactive. Improvements over Halloran Software's ASTROL96, The Public Domain Astrology Program for DOS: High resolution color graphics, nicely formatted printing, biwheel of two charts, greatly expanded city lists and higher resolution maps, list of world time zones, can enter data to the second, sun is calculated to an accuracy of one arc-second and moon to five arc-seconds, has Chiron and moon's true nodes, calculates solar and lunar return charts, has context-sensitive help and an introduction to astrology. Unique features of this astrology program: This is a reliable, very accurate, and easy to use astrology calculation program. It does not attempt to provide interpretations, which avoid being superficial only in complete report writer programs such as we sell commercially. Most astrology software programmers are just starting to produce programs for Windows. Halloran Software started selling Beta-test versions of our Windows program in 1992. I believe this program to be unique among shareware in the support that it provides for copying both text and graphics to the Windows clipboard, in calculating to such high accuracy, in calculating return charts and a transits list, in its comprehensive atlas module, in analyzing compatibility between people's charts, in the high quality of its two graphic wheels, and in its support for international date formats and languages. Program capacity or limitations: Astrology for Windows is distributed as freeware, with no requirement to ever register it. The program will calculate and display an unlimited number of accurate charts for any place or time. The tabular displays of positions and aspects may be printed for all charts. However, registration does bring additional benefits such as the ability to save more than just 100 birth charts to file, delete charts, make use of the maps of the United States and Europe, and print or copy to the clipboard the color graphic wheels for more than saved chart number one. System requirements: 4 Mb RAM recommended, Windows 3.1 or higher. How to start the program: Start the program by clicking on the icon for Astrology for Windows in the Halloran Software program group or from Windows 3.1 File Manager or Windows 95 Explorer double-click the AST4WIN.EXE file. Registration fee: US$26.50 Materials or services that come with registration: Registration code that opens additional features; addition to mailing list for update notices; technical support phone number. List of program files and one-line description of each file: PDASTWIN.TXT - This file. READTHIS.TXT - Instructions for installing Astrology for Windows. AST4WIN.EXE - Astrology calculation program. ASTTEXT.INI - All program text is externalized to this editable file. TRANSLAT.TXT - Table of captions arranged by menu for the translator. ASTTEXT.ENG - English language program text file. ASTTEXT.SPA - Spanish language program text file, by Rafael Corrales. ASTTEXT.NOR - Norwegian language program text file, by Hallvard Oestrem. ASTTEXT.NED - Dutch language program text file, by Nick Zwart. ASTTEXT.POR - Portugese language program text file, by Pedro Macedo. ASTTEXT.SWE - Swedish language program text file, by Anders Kihlström. ASTTEXT.ITA - Italian language program text file, by G.L. Proverbio. ASTTEXT.FRA - French language program text file, by Lionel Ancelet. AST4WIN.HLP - Windows Help file has complete manual. ADDEMO.EXE - Stand-alone demo of additional features in AstrolDeluxe. DELTAT.WST - Table of Delta t time difference corrections. STABBR.INI - List of state and country name abbreviations. AUSCIT.WST - City list for Australia. CANCIT.WST - City list for Canada. EUROCIT.WST - City list for Europe. USCIT1.WST - City list for part of United States. USCIT2.WST - City list for part of United States. USCIT3.WST - City list for part of United States. WORLDCIT.WST - City list for the rest of the world. EUROPE.RLE - VGA map image of Europe. USA.RLE - VGA map image of United States. WORLD.RLE - VGA map image of World. CMDIALOG.VBX - Windows common dialog control. GRID.VBX - Grid control. MHEN200.VBX - MicroHelp function library. MHFL200.VBX - MicroHelp function library. VSVBX.VBX - VideoSoft form control. COMMDLG.DLL - Windows common dialog library. DDEML.DLL - Dynamic data link library. HSCALC10.DLL - Astronomical calculations library. MHRUN300.DLL - MicroHelp run-time library. VBRUN300.DLL - Visual Basic run-time library, not normally included in zip file, obtain from your source for Astrology for Windows - the above large file belongs in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. INSTALL.BAT - Batch file which runs INSTALL1.EXE. SETUP.BAT - Batch file which runs INSTALL1.EXE. INSTALL1.EXE - Program which if run from hard disk adds to the Windows desktop the Halloran Software program group and icons for Astrology for Windows and Astrology for Windows Help. Shareware Installation Instructions: ------------------------------------ Use Windows 3.1 File Manager or Windows 95 Explorer to create a directory or folder on your hard disk for the program (make sure you start at the root directory or topmost folder of the drive), preferably one called C:\WINASTRO -- this name is recommended but not required. Move the ASTWIN22.ZIP file to the \WINASTRO directory. Use a file unzip program to extract the contents into the \WINASTRO directory. If you have the PKUNZIP.EXE program in one of the directories in your AUTOEXEC.BAT Path statement, and have made the WINASTRO directory the current directory in File Manager or Explorer, you can enter PKUNZIP ASTWIN22 in Run at File Manager's File menu or at the Windows 95 Start menu. Press the F5 function key to refresh the File Manager window. Double-click on the INSTALL1.EXE file -- this will add the Halloran Software program group and astrology item icons to your Windows desktop.