Program Title: Astrology for Windows (AST4WIN)

Version: 3.0
Program Description:
Astrology for Windows is a comprehensive astrology program that does
astrological calculations as well as interpretation reports, that can
be in different world languages. It 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 interactive aspect lines as well
as aspect patterns, which the program detects. 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, transits lists, and composite charts.
Version 3 features the powerful Yellow Book Atlas of 9,000 cities in
250 countries with time zone histories going back to World War II.
There are interactive maps of the World, U.S., and Europe. The program
includes the minor planet Chiron and the moon's true nodes. It comes
with the 40-page Classic British Astro Report for interpreting single
charts and the Soul Healing Transits Report to do chronological
reports that interpret the transiting aspects. Reports can generate
to pdf Adobe Reader file format or to html web browser format.
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. Users can presently choose
during installation from 15 world languages.
Intended User: Astrology hobbyists.
While we have been selling the 32-bit version 2.5 on CD since 2009,
version 3 is the first Internet-downloadable version to update
Astrology for Windows from 16-bit to 32-bit, enabling the download
to run on everything from Windows 98 to 64-bit Windows 8. The
electronic Help file has been converted from *.hlp format to *.chm
format, making it unnecessary for the Windows Vista, 7, or 8 user to
download the engine to read *.hlp files from Microsoft's website.
The Europe and World map files have been replaced by the newer and
politically up-to-date maps created in 2002 for AstrolDeluxe
ReportWriter. The separate demo program of additional features
found in AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter, which demo can be run from the
Natal Information screen's Help menu, has also been converted from
16-bit to 32-bit, although it does not show all the new features in
version 8.1 of AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter. The major improvement for
version 3 is the addition of the Yellow Book Atlas of 9,000 cities
for 250 countries with reliable time zone observance histories going
back to World War II and which can be updated in the future through
a menu selection for automated Internet download. Version 3 also
adds the ability to do interpretation reports, aspect patterns, and
composite charts, both between two people and the triad chart with
one's parents, which acts like a second birth chart that can say for
what purpose the child was born.
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.
This is a reliable, very accurate, and easy to use astrology
calculation program. Halloran Software has been creating a line of
astrology software since 1985 and has been selling Windows astrology
software since 1992.
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, print or copy to the clipboard the color graphic wheels for
more than saved chart number one, and calculate the list of transits
for more than saved chart number one.
Version 2.5 and 3.0 improvements: As above, starting with conversion
from 16-bit to 32-bit.
System requirements: 16 Mb RAM recommended, Windows 98 or higher.
Installation instructions: This text file is one of the six files that
you have already extracted from astwin30.zip to a folder. You will see
the setup.exe file with a computer icon next to it. To avoid the bad
experience of setup becoming frozen, temporarily disable your
anti-virus program, such as Avast, by right-clicking on its icon in
your system tray and selecting in the control option to disable
for 10 minutes (not necessary with Microsoft Security Essentials).
Then install Astrology for Windows by double-clicking on setup.exe.
The final step of the setup will allow you to choose in which of 15
world languages you want the program. In the future, you will find
Astrology for Windows at Start, Programs, Halloran Software. You can
always remove it at Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.
How to start the program:
Click on Start, Programs, Halloran Software and select the moon icon
item to run Astrology for Windows. You can put this shortcut on your
desktop by right-clicking it and from the pop-up menu select Send To
and Desktop. You can also start the program if, from Windows Explorer,
you double-click the C:\WINASTRO\AST4WIN.EXE file. To change the
installed world language, double-click the C:\WINASTRO\LANGINST.EXE
file.
Registration fee: US$45.00
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:
ASTWIN30.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.
ASTTEXT.POL - Polish language program text file, by Mieczyslaw Turlinski.
ASTTEXT.RUS - Russian language program text file, by Alexei Kornilov.
AST4WIN.CHM - 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.
ATLASYB.DLL - Yellow Book Atlas Library, design by Jamie Longstreet.
DICRYPTOSYS.DLL - Library for uncompressing atlas and interpretation files.
FLY2PDF.DLL - Library for writing interpretation reports to pdf files.
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.BMP - VGA map image of Europe.
USA.RLE - VGA map image of United States.
WORLD.BMP - VGA map image of World.
CLASSIC.HRO - Interpretations for the Classic British Astro Report.
SOULTRAN.HRO - Interpretations for the Soul Healing Transits Report.
HHCTRL.OCX - HTML Help control.
HH.EXE - a small executable that loads and starts hhctrl.ocx.
ITIRCL.DLL - Library for Microsoft HTML Help.
ITSS.DLL - Microsoft InfoTech Storage System Library.
COMDLG32.OCX - Windows common dialog control.
MSCOMCTL.OCX - Windows common controls library.
MSCOMCT2.OCX - Windows common controls 2 library.
MSFLXGRD.OCX - Microsoft FlexGrid control.
VSOCX.OCX - VideoSoft elastic form control.
THREED32.OCX - Sheridan Controls library used to create AstrolDeluxe demo.
HSC3032.DLL - Astronomical calculations library.
MBFIEE32.DLL - Library to convert old Microsoft Binary format files
WININET.DLL - Library to allow updated atlas file downloads.
ZLIB.DLL - Library supports on-the-fly file compression/uncompression.
LANGINST.EXE - Program which allows foreign language selection and adds to
the Windows desktop the revised name icon for Astrology
for Windows.
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