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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.0 out soon
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.012200.29598@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 11 Jun 91 01:22:00 GMT
References: <1991Jun08.054836.6622@actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
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In article <1991Jun08.054836.6622@actrix.gen.nz> keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:
>Just got off the phone to Virtual Realities. (They are sure nice people)
>and Distant Suns 4.0 is out. I ordered my upgrade then and there (I had rung them about something else)
>No info from about whats in the upgrade I couldn't dally as international tolls
>cost an arm aND a leg
>Anyone got any specs on it.

Gee, maybe I can help.

Distant Suns 4.0 (which will ship on June 14 if all goes well) contains 
oodles of neat new features. Which include :

   * AREXX

   * hi-res interlaced double-buffered screens

   * the ability to move your eyepoint away from the earth and
     look back at the solar-system

   * support for anim creation

   * support for comets and asteroids 

   * save and restore program configurations

   * completely redone interface

   * expanded stellar databases using up to 255,000 stars.

   * full-screen images, user customizable

   * etc, etc, etc... 
>
>PS Kudos to Virtual Realities. They are very good people to deal with. 
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think so.


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