Star Atlas 0.6b1 This is an Educational Game 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. The game was also tested on a Quadra with 68040 processor and a 13 inch Color Screen and System 7.1 by Mactivity. This program draws a map of a region of the sky. Unlike the preceding application StarChart (*), it conforms to the Apple standard menu system with reverted black menu bar. (Otherwise you will find the white menu very disturbing...) It runs with MultiFinder. I confirmed it runs on MacPlus, SE, SE/30 and II with System 6.0.2 or later. To run this program, an accompanied data file "star.catalog" should be put in the same folder. This data file is converted from David Palmer's "stars.cart", which he claims as public domain and contains the position, magnitude, name and color of 1573 stars. To change the center position of the Atlas, use R.A. (Right Ascension) and Decl. (Declination) menus. You can also change the center position by clicking a portion of the Star Atlas window. Zoom menu changes the scale of the Atlas. Star names can be displayed on the screen by checking "Display star names brigher than..." option in the "Preference..." dialog box. They are shown as abbreviated composites of their Greek prefixes and the constellation names. For example, "alpCMA" is CMA alpha (Sirius, aka Dog Star), and "betORI" is ORI beta (Rigel, Orion). Window size may be changed by dragging the grow icon at the lower right corner of the Atlas window although the grow icon itself is not visible. You will notice a change in the shape of mouse cursor from cross to arrow when you are in the grow box. You can also move the window by dragging a pixel-width white line just below the menu bar. Clicking in the zoom box in the upper right corner of the Atlas window will put the window back to the original position. Drawing a map takes time on old machines like Plus or SE (typically 30 sec for poloar maps, namely Decl. = +/-90o and +/-60o, 10 sec for other maps), so please be patient! Back to the Computer Games Index