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Dear David,
If you like Voyager II, you should try Starry Night. SN only runs
effectively on a Power Mac if you want to use it interactively,
but movies can be made which run fast during class. If you have a
Power Mac you'll give up Voyager II completely; if you have just
the Mac IIsi you will want SN for the sheer beauty of its
simulations. It also does Earth satellites and puts realistic
tails on comets. If you would like a movie (and you have the
space to put one on your hard disk) I'll be glad to make one for
you and send it along. Just let me know your longitude and
latitude and the time of evening you'd like to see, and between
which dates. The movie I send you will be compressed (Stuffited)
but it gets quite large when unstuffed.
If you haven't lots of extra space I recommend you download the
shareware version of SN from Sienna Software's site.
Leigh
Thanks for the info Leigh. Do you have a web site address for Sienna
Software? Otherwise I'll give them a call or just do a search. We've got
some Power Macs in the computer room and I know the kids will love playing
with the program.
http://www.siennasoft.com/
The application must be registered within thirty days (I think) on any
one machine or it begins to put requests for shareware payments in the
sky. The deluxe version is cheap. If you like the look you should buy it.
Leigh