Halloran Software Astrology for Windows Description

Astrology Software for Hobbyists

Program Title: Astrology for Windows (AST4WIN)

Version: 2.3i

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 that 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 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. Fifteen languages are supported in this release.

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. Russian, Slovakian, and Polish are available as separate downloads from the web site Updates page. 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. In 32-bit Windows Vista, the Help will successfully come up when you are inside the Astrology for Windows program.

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 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.

Reason for version 2.3i:

As of July 23, 2007, version 2.3i of Astrology for Windows became available for download. Click for version info and to read helpful information about running this new version on Windows XP and 32-bit Vista.

System requirements: 4 Mb RAM recommended, Windows 3.1 or higher. Version 2.3 of Astrology for Windows runs fine on 32-bit Windows Vista, but 16-bit programs do not run on 64-bit Vista. If you have a 64-bit machine, you can order a CD with the 32-bit version 2.5 of Astrology for Windows.

How to start the program: (See installation instructions below.)

In Windows 95/98/Me/XP/Vista, click on Start, Programs, Halloran Software and select the moon icon item to run Astrology for Windows. Or, from Explorer in 95/98/Me/XP/Vista, 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:

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 - Portuguese language program text file, by Pedro Macedo.
ASTTEXT.SWE - Swedish language program text file, by Anders Kihlström 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 Seppälä.
ASTTEXT.GER - German language program text file, by Matthias Liesenhoff.
ASTTEXT.SLK - Slovak language program text file, by Ladislav Filo (get from Updates page).
ASTTEXT.POL - Polish language program text file, by Mieczyslaw Turlinski (get from Updates page).
ASTTEXT.RUS - Russian language program text file, by Alexei Kornilov (get 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:

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 by clicking on the link and choosing Save to Disk, note the location and 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 automatic 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/Vista, select Start, Programs, Halloran Software and click on the crescent moon icon item in order to run the Astrology for Windows program.

Click to download your own copy of the Astrology for Windows program, version 2.3i - astwin23.exe, a 1.4Mb self-extracting WinZip file.

Halloran Software
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 the front page of the web site.

Astrology Software home page.