Getting Audio to work for Celestia-160

[rpolisetty]

Hi,
I have recently purchased Celestia Educational Activities Volume 1 DVD and installed on my Windows 7 PC.
I am having trouble getting any audio to work.
Can anyone send me a pointer to information on how to get the Audio to work?
Thanks,
Ramesh

[John Van Vliet]

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[fsgregs]

that is free if you paid cash for it ( more that $2 to $3 dollars for burning it to a dvd )
then you were scammed

also there is no sound
it it was advertised to have it you were misinformed

John, I am really surprised and insulted by your reply. I spent five years writing Celestia educational activities since 2004, and working closely with dozens of Celestia and addon designers to create addons for Celestia that were never there before, because I needed them in my activities. My Educational Activities are being used in hundreds of high schools and universities around the world now, because I took the damned time to design and write them, without pay or compensation. Celestia is NOT user friendly for a classroom of students or for average folks. Without the hundreds of pages of detailed, step by step guidance I have placed in my 12 separate activities, a lot LESS people would be using the program now and enjoying the beauty if has to offer.

I posted my educational activities on the motherlode for free as a service to everyone in the community. They are 2.5 GB in size zipped, and over 7 GB unzipped. They require 14 separate downloads, and loading into various Celestia folders. It is not easy to get them all and it is quite time consuming.

To aid schools and individuals who don't want to go to that effort, and to compensate me modestly for all of my work over the years, I most certainly have the right to compile five years of my effort onto a single DVD for a modest fee. To state that my clients have been "Scammed" is absolute crap!

Regarding the sound, it is you who are misinformed. My Activities do have sound and always have. Celestia designers created a custom version of Celestia 140, 150 and then 160 for me years ago, that does have a very nice sound effect. It can play up to eight sounds at once. To the best of my knowledge, the sound files are supposed to work fine on Windows 7. If they do not, that is something I will investigate immediately.

Can anyone send me a pointer to information on how to get the Audio to work?
Thanks,
Ramesh

Ramesh: Sorry for your trouble. If the sound is not working on Windows 7, I need a bit of time to investigate it. I was unaware of that fact. I don't have a Windows 7 machine, so I have to locate one and install the Activities on it. I will contact you via email as soon as I find out what is happening.

In the interim, please do this: Open the Celestia 160-ED folder titled, "scripts", look for a file named "Sound-A1.celx", and double-click on it. It should launch Celestia and in the background, you should soon hear a low hum sound (turn up your speakers). Press the "F5" key on the keyboard, and you should then hear your ship's "warp drive" engine come on. If you do not, email me with a reply, and I will determine why the sound component of the celx script is not working.

Frank

[Cham]

I just want to add my personnal comment here :

I fully agree with Frank. That educational version of Celestia is CERTAINLY NOT a scam !
I've done something similar myself (but I don't distribute it yet) for my own classroom activities, and I can confirm that it takes a LOT of time, patience and effort to do. So asking a fee for a special compilation with docs on a DVD can't be a scam at all !

Come on, John !

[John Van Vliet]

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[fsgregs]

F/U:

Ramesh's problem is solved. Sound in Celestia160-ED works fine on Windows7. He confirmed by separate email that he simply did not click the links embedded in the activity documents to activate the sound add-on. When, he did so, everything worked.

Frank