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One workaround is to edit the favorites.cel file. I copied another entry and changed the time: "1000AD" { isFolder false parentFolder "" base [ 0.003247301097505698 2.816924692106845e-008 -6.229881270906524e-006 ] offset [ -1.143976406658975e-013 -8.673617379884036e-019 -2.906746024433637e-016 ] axi...

I suppose this is a feature (or a FAQ) but I can't set the time directly earlier than about 1770 AD. I know I can "back up" the calendar but it is slow and tedious. Any workarounds I could use?

That explains it: I have only OpenGL v1.1 drivers. There are no newer drivers, OpenGL or video, available for the S3 Savage. :( But it is not a big problem, 1.2.4 works adequately with S3. And, anyway, I use Celestia on my desktop machine with GeForce 4 Ti 4600, which I bought specifically for this ...

I have installed this wonderful program on every computer I have laid my hands on :) I installed 1.2.4 succesfully on a HP Omnibook XE3 laptop (547 MHz Celeron, 64 Mb RAM, display adapter: S3 Savage/IX w/MV, Win98SE). It runs quite well, albeit a bit jerkily. But 1.2.5pre7 crashes immediately. I won...