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Digital Almanac III - Update and News

An update for the well-known astronomy program "Digital Almanac III"
is available for upgrade to version 3.3

Highlights:
* Improved and functional toolbar with buttons in the GlowIcon style
  by Martin Merz.
* Calculation of "killer asteroids" (so called PHA's). What asteroid
  will come closest to Earth ?
* IFF-ANIM compression now also done in PPC mode. Also saving anims
  and screenshots will only save the star map area, no more the full
  screen.
* The screen has a name and an optional screen bar with depth gadget
  is available via menu item. This allows some comodities to access
  the DA III screen.

Bugfixes:
* Printer output was distorted since several versions.
* Some orbits of minor bodies were drawn wrong because of wrong
  perihelion calculation.

The update will be sent via email to all registered users.
Customers, who have ordered DA III, but haven't received the CD yet,
don't need to upgrade, as their CD will contain this latest version!

Notes about WinUAE  and MorphOS:
DA III runs perfectly with the newest WinUAE-JIT version in 020/FPU mode.
However, using latest official version of Cloantos Amiga Forever 4, DA III
only runs in simple 020 mode without FPU, because of faulty FPU-emulation.
DA III is not usable under MorphOS in all versions, as the FPU-emulation
here still seems to be faulty in same cases. A special MorphOS version
of DA III will not be written. A working MorphOS version will be sufficient
to run DA III in its WarpOS-version.

PC-Port?
I had to deny requests about a port for Windows. Digital Almanac will stay
an Amiga program only. Ports for other OS like Windows or Linux will never
be written.