Minaret This is Educational Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did run on a b/w 68030 processor under System 7.1. It was also tested on a big ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh running System 7.1.2. Our experience The game was also tested on a Quadra with 68040 processor and a 13 inch Color Screen and System 7.1 by Mactivity. computes Islamic prayer schedules, the direction of the Qibla, and various data related to the Hijri calendar. You may freely give copies of this program to others. Since the program contains an editable data base, please save a backup copy, and use only a working copy to do your computations. Please give only unmodified copies to others, and include this documentation with the program. The Place menu This is the first menu you should look at. Minaret contains a built-in gazetteer with geographical information about 170 cities initially. At any time, one of these is the "Current Location" for which all computations are done. To specify any location as the Current Location, click on the "Select location" item in the "Place" menu. A large window will appear in which the list at left is the gazetteer. As you scroll through this list and click on various location names, the stored data about them appears in the boxes at right. If your desired location is in the gazetteer, select it, then press "Make it Current Location". All subsequent computations will be done for that city, even when you exit and relaunch Minaret. You can edit the gazetteer to add and delete locations, and to modify information about existing locations. By editing the boxes and setting radio buttons at right, you can supply the geographical data about the cities you wish to add. You will need to know the latitude, longitude, zone time relative to Greenwich, and whether or not the place observes Daylight Savings Time. After filling in the information for each city, press "Update/add this location". To delete a location, select it in the gazetteer, then press "Remove this location". Only 200 cities are allowed in the gazetteer. So you may need to delete some locations to make room for others. You can find out how many cities are already in the gazetteer by selecting the "Gazetteer size" item. Back to the Computer Games Index