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Old member back again
Posted: 21.02.2007, 15:31
by r_alder
Greetings, all.
I have been away from Celestia for a while, but recently my astronomy bug has been activated again. I have a number of questions about where the program is by now, but my biggest two questions are: a) will my computer handle the current version; and b) will my existing planet textures still work?
Sorry, I'm at the office, so I can't give you the version number I currently have at the moment.
Any tips and info appreciated!
Posted: 21.02.2007, 16:01
by selden
Quick answers to both are "Yes."
Except that you won't see all of the available eye candy unless your graphics card supports OpenGL v2.0.
Posted: 22.02.2007, 15:20
by r_alder
Okay, it looks like I have v1.3.2 installed. I was looking around for Celestia history document so I could find at a glance what I've missed. Is there such a thing? Haven't found it yet...
Posted: 22.02.2007, 15:29
by t00fri
r_alder wrote:Okay, it looks like I have v1.3.2 installed. I was looking around for Celestia history document so I could find at a glance what I've missed. Is there such a thing? Haven't found it yet...
A detailed account is in the File "Changelog" that is part of the Celestia sources. This is the standard history file practically for every Open Source project. If you installed only a binary version of Celestia, the Changelog file is probably missing along with quite a few (valuable) other files.
Bye Fridger
Posted: 22.02.2007, 17:18
by selden
Celestia v1.4.1 downloads are available on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302
or you can get them by way of the official Celestia Web site (which redirects requests to SourceForge)
http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/download.html
Don't try to use a download accelerator: they can't work.
The current Changelog is available at
http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/cel ... iew=markup
It includes the changes that have been made for Celestia v1.5.0; additional bug fixes are planned.
An official Celestia v1.5.0pre2 for Windows is available at
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre2.exe
An unofficial Celestia v1.5.0pre2 for MacOS is described at
http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10541&
It's available on
http://stevenbinder.net/
Posted: 22.02.2007, 19:38
by r_alder
Thank you everyone. Everything I could possibly need to know!