Program Title: Astrology for Windows (AST4WIN)

Version: 2.3g
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
2600 cities and interactive maps of the World, U.S., and Europe. The
program includes the 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 2.3 extends the accurate range of Chiron outside the 20th
century, to span the period from 1800 to 2100 A.D. If you turn on
Chiron as a planet in the Customization menu, Chiron can now be one of
the transiting planets at Options, Transits List. The declinations at
Display, Supplemental Calculations, are extended past the Asc. and M.C.
to include the Moon's Nodes, the Part of Fortune, and Chiron, if you
have customized the program to include those additional planet points.
This version adds glyphs showing any intercepted signs between the
houses of the graphic chartwheel. It adds a list of recently viewed
charts, at the bottom of the File menu at the Chart Information screen,
allowing immediate selection and display. In the version of Astrology
for Windows that can be downloaded off the Internet, twelve languages
can be selected during installation, namely, English, Spanish,
Norwegian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Italian, French, Czech,
Romanian, Finnish, and German. Three more languages, Slovak, Russian,
and Polish, can be downloaded from the Updates page at the web site.
The separate demo program of additional features found in AstrolDeluxe
for Windows, a demo that can be run from the Natal Information screen's
Help menu, has been updated to show all the added features in AstrolDeluxe,
including AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter, as of 1999. The Windows Help manual
has been thoroughly brought up to date.
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 software
such as we sell commercially. Halloran Software has been creating a
line of astrology software since 1985 and has been selling Windows
astrology software since 1992. This program is 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.
Version 2.3g improvements: On Windows XP systems, the calculated time
was displaying incorrectly for AM charts on computers that are set for a
24-hour clock, unless the user had executed a work-around at Control
Panel, Regional Settings. This version 2.3g makes that work-around
unnecessary, causing the times to always display correctly.
The only other Windows XP issue with a 16-bit program like Astrology
for Windows can arise when trying to print to a printer that connects to
a USB port instead of to the normal parallel printer port. If this doesn't
work, the preferred solution is to get a $12 parallel printer cable to connect
the printer, but if you can't do that, then try right-clicking on the
AST4WIN.EXE file and in Properties, Compatibility Mode, select
Windows 95 or Windows 98. This works for most USB printers under
Windows XP, but I know of one case involving a multi-function device
which simply would not print from the 16-bit Astrology for Windows,
requiring the Astrology for Windows customer to do the $149 upgrade to
the 32-bit version 6 of AstrolDeluxe.
System requirements: 4 Mb RAM recommended, Windows 3.1 or higher.
How to start the program: In Windows 3.1, start the program by
clicking on the icon for Astrology for Windows in the Halloran
Software program group. In Windows 95/98/Me/XP click on Start, Programs,
Halloran Software and select the moon icon item to run Astrology for
Windows. Or, either from File Manager in Windows 3.1 or Explorer in
Windows 95/98/Me/XP, 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:
ASTWIN23.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 Kihlstrm
and Per Malare.
ASTTEXT.ITA - Italian language program text file, by G.L. Proverbio.
ASTTEXT.FRA - French language program text file, by Lionel Ancelet.
ASTTEXT.CZE - Czech language program text file, by Tomas Drahokoupil.
ASTTEXT.ROM - Romanian language program text file, by Ghiocel Balan.
ASTTEXT.FIN - Finnish language program text file, by Kari Seppl.
ASTTEXT.GER - German language program text file, by Matthias Liesenhoff.
ASTTEXT.SLK - Slovak language program text file, by Laco Filo; file
available by download from Updates page.
ASTTEXT.POL - Polish language program text file, by Mieczyslaw Turlinski;
file available by download from Updates page.
ASTTEXT.RUS - Russian language program text file, by Alexei Kornilov;
file available by download from Updates page..
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.
HSCALC31.DLL - Astronomical calculations library.
MHRUN300.DLL - MicroHelp run-time library.
VBRUN300.DLL - Visual Basic run-time library.
INSTALL.BAT - Batch file which runs INSTALL1.EXE.
SETUP.BAT - Batch file which runs INSTALL1.EXE.
INSTALL1.EXE - Program which if run from your hard disk allows foreign
language selection and adds to the Windows desktop the
Halloran Software program group and icons for Astrology
for Windows and Astrology for Windows Help.
Shareware Installation Instructions:
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The Astrology for Windows program, version 2.3, comes in a
self-extracting Windows executable - ASTWIN23.EXE. Once you have
downloaded this program to your computer, double-click from Explorer on
the file. The WinZip extraction program will confirm that you want to
extract all the files to the C:\WINASTRO directory, which it will create
for you.
The final act of the extraction process is to run the INSTALL1.EXE
program - this will ask in which of the 12 available languages you want
your program to be and will add the Halloran Software program group and
astrology item icons to your Windows desktop [you yourself can rerun the
INSTALL1.EXE program in the future].
In Windows 95/98/Me/XP, select Start, Programs, Halloran Software and click
on the moon icon item in order to run the Astrology for Windows program.
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P.O. Box 75713
Los Angeles, CA 90075
U.S.A.
Web Site: http://www.halloran.com/
The web site includes a Secure Orders form where you can pay by
credit card in order to receive your registration password by e-mail.
E-Mail addresses: john@halloran.com
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US/Canada order telephone: 1-800-SEA-GOAT
US/Canada order fax: 1-800-257-4555
International orders: get the current Halloran Software phone number
from Los Angeles business directory assistance at 213/555-1212.