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From: ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Galileo-to-Distant Suns upgrade?
Summary: Upgrade info - here 'tis!
Message-ID: <1989Nov7.025340.806@uncecs.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 89 02:53:40 GMT
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As you've heard, Distant Suns = the new upgrade from Galileo.
Mike Smithwick is handling the upgrades from Galileo himself, though.
If you're a registered owner, you'll get an upgrade notice in a couple
of weeks.  In any case, if you own Galileo 1 or 2, you can upgrade
to Distant Suns by sending $15 (throw in the sales tax if you live
in CA) and your original disk to :

		Mike Smithwick
		25215 La Loma Drive
		Los Altos Hills, CA  94022

Other goodies available with Distant Suns (you can probably get these
from the Virtual Realities folks):
 - An image disk with 215 images of star clusters, galaxies and nebula.
I've seen a couple of these; they pop up in a corner of the screen,
maybe 2" square. C-U-T-E!  Yeah, there's info about the pictures too.
It's $30, called "Image Disk Level I."
 - A BIG star database of 20,000 stars, called "Skymap level I."  On
two disks, needs a meg of RAM and a hard disk (for 1.15 meg of stuff.)
That's $25.  
 - The standard Yale Brightstar Catalog (I guess the one offered with
Galileo 2) of 9100 stars.  $18.

Just today got the new (November) Amazing, and wonder of wonders, Mike's
new publisher is actually advertising the thing!  Kinda goofy - "control 
the universe"? - computer-techo font? - Escherian symbols?  Oh well,
better than nothing - it's on p. 96.

(Nah, I don't get anything but brownie points for saying this.)

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