Mac OS help

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JimHarvie
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Mac OS help

Post #1by JimHarvie » 30.09.2006, 21:44

I have uses the search to find stuff specific to Mac OS without much luck. I know there must be a lot of mac users so I must be doing something wrong. I am looking for keyboard commands and features that are not on the mac and am wondering if anyone has posted this?
I also have a problem that I must have caused when I loaded an ad-on. Many (but not all) stars have a square area around them that is much lighter than the background. Is there a simple fix or should I reinstall and start over? I use a power pc 4 with a GeForce FX 5200 and 512 mb of memory
apple 1.5 ghz powerpc g4 512 mb ddr sdram with nvdia geforce fx go5200 graphic card with mac os x 10.3.9 operating system. Celestia 1.4.1

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Post #2by selden » 30.09.2006, 21:56

What version of Celestia are you running?
What version of MacOS are you running?

Square stars were a bug in one of the beta versions of Celestia and shouldn't happen in v1.4.1.

(I don't have a Mac, so I can't help with your other questions. Sorry.)
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Post #3by dirkpitt » 01.10.2006, 00:07

selden wrote:What version of Celestia are you running?
What version of MacOS are you running?

Square stars were a bug in one of the beta versions of Celestia and shouldn't happen in v1.4.1.


Selden is correct, please try Celestia 1.4.1 (the official version, not any of the unofficial builds).

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mac os help

Post #4by JimHarvie » 01.10.2006, 20:08

Thanks for the quick response. I have e-mailed you a gif of part of my screen.

I use Celestia 1.4.1 running on 10.3.9. I did not get this issue when I installed a week ago but I went crazy downloading add-ons so I am doubless the author of my own misery. :) :oops:
apple 1.5 ghz powerpc g4 512 mb ddr sdram with nvdia geforce fx go5200 graphic card with mac os x 10.3.9 operating system. Celestia 1.4.1

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Post #5by selden » 01.10.2006, 21:15

Have you tried removing any of the more recently installed Addons?

You might take a look at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html
It suggests a directory layout that can help keep addons managable.

Assuming you're up to date with whatever patches Apple provides for its graphics software, and if you can't determine which Addon is responsible, I fear you need to consider deleting the whole Celestia directory and reinstalling Celestia from scratch, and then reinstalling the Addons one at a time until you see the problem again.

I really don't know how an Addon could cause the squares around the stars, though.
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Post #6by ElChristou » 01.10.2006, 21:40

I'm running 1.3.9 on a G4 with a GeForce4MX, I've been using Celestia since 1.3.2 and never get the star bug you describe...
Concerning the shortcuts, you have a help menu with all the command listed...
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