Program Title:  Astrology for Windows (AST4WIN)
Version: 2.2j
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 between the planets which you can interactively adjust. 
The program makes it easy for you to look at your 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 2700 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.  Thirteen languages are supported in this release.

Intended User:  Astrology hobbyists.

This version 2.2 improves the handling of non-English text; the install
program lets the user select English, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian,
Dutch, Swedish, Italian, French, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Finnish, and
German.  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 85 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: (See installation instructions below.) 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, 
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 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; and technical support phone number.

List of program files and one-line description of each file:

ASTWIN22.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 - Portuguese 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.RUS - Russian language program text file, by Alexei Kornilov.
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.
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:
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The Astrology for Windows program, version 2.2, now comes in a self-
extracting Windows executable - ASTWIN22.EXE.  Once you have downloaded
and saved this program to your computer's hard disk, 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 which of the 13 available languages you prefer
that your program be in 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, 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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Halloran Software
P.O. Box 75713
Los Angeles, CA 90075
U.S.A.

Web Site: http://www.halloran.com/

E-Mail: seagoat@compuserve.com

US/Canada order telephone: 1-800-SEA-GOAT (732-4628)
US/Canada order fax: 1-800-257-4555

International callers: get current phone and fax numbers from
  web site or Los Angeles business directory assistance.
