How do I run Celestia?

waxman80014 · Post #1by **waxman80014** » 20.06.2003, 22:24

I saw the program on Call for Help but Roger did not say what program you need to run Celestia... I am useing windows XP and I just want to know what program I need to run it...

jamarsa · Post #2by **jamarsa** » 20.06.2003, 22:39

Eeehhh??? Just download and install it... And you better have a good graphics card...

PS: to download it, go to http://celestia.sourceforge.net
to install, double-click the file, press 'yes', 'next', 'yes', 'next', 'next', 'next', etc., etc, etc... install!! :wink:

JackHiggins · Post #3by **JackHiggins** » 20.06.2003, 23:31

"Call for help"...?

Post #4by **selden** » 21.06.2003, 00:07

Guys,

There's no need to make fun. We all had to start somewhere.

waxman80014,

Celestia *is* a program.

First you have to download the program which installs Celestia.
(If you use a dialup modem. I'd suggest getting the "lores" version, which is about 5.5MB.)
When you run the installer program, it'll create directories and put a copy of Celestia, its libraries and its objects in them. If you want, it'll also put an icon on your desktop that'll run Celestia when you double-click on it.

Please read Frank Gregorio's User's Manual for Celestia. It describes all the details about installing it and running it. The manual is available in several formats: pdf, doc and html.. There are links to them all on shatters.net at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html

One of the html versions is at http://teyssier.nerim.net/celestia/doc/

Does this help?

Post #5by **chris** » 21.06.2003, 00:09

JackHiggins wrote:"Call for help"...?

I haven't seen it myself, but apparently Celestia was on a TV show:

http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/freef ... 67,00.html

Shatters.net got pounded last week by people referred from this site . . .

--Chris

Post #6by **selden** » 21.06.2003, 00:22

Sorry, Jack: I misunderstood what you wrote.

Since you left out the rest of your sentence ("What is"), I thought maybe you were suggesting that is what waxman should do.

Chris,

Shatters is still getting pounded. traceroute was showing close to a second of delay getting theough the shatters gateway for most of today.

jamarsa · Post #7by **jamarsa** » 21.06.2003, 08:05

selden wrote:There's no need to make fun. We all had to start somewhere.

Sorry selden and waxman, my fault too. Sometimes I get a bit foolish...
But when someone finds this forum, I suppose it's pretty simple to find the download link too... :roll:

and if he can register and post here, I assume certain minimal knowledge on computers (at least to the point of running a program in Windows).
I forgot to point at the documentation, however. My fault too again, sorry. Thx selden for that.

PS: and the Download link is present in the page chris points to...

Post #8by **selden** » 21.06.2003, 12:02

jamarsa,

Unfortunately, for many people computers are still magic. They don't yet know anything about what goes on "behind the screen". Many are given a box that was ccnfigured by soneone else, so they have no idea what's involved.