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So you
wanna fight, huh? :-) If we're talking about astronomy that provides info useful
to dialists:-
For
Pocket PC:
An
Ephemeris program from Jonathan Sachs. Has a nice compass feature: point the PC
at the Sun (or Moon as appropriate) and it indicates True North. Produces a
table of the Sun's position throughout the day. Freeware.
Nomad
Electronics' "Pocket Stars": http://www.nomadelectronics.com/ a
planetarium program. Rise, Set, Altitude and Azimuth (in real time). $19.99 but
incorporates NASA's ephemeris for Sun, Moon and planets for dates in this
century. (Back to 1700 if you have 60 Meg spare)
If
you're real DOS fan you might try looking for Steven Moshier's AA, an ephemeris
program for DOS. Another program that uses routines to get NASA-standard
accuracy - just what the average dial constructor needs,
right?
Cheers,
Richard
Amazingly, nobody seems to have mentionned
the excellent (shareware) program 'Planetarium' for Palm computers, by A.
Hofer...
It is a complete Planetarium, as the name implies, and gives Rise
& Set + Transit times, twilight times, and the position of the Sun and
planets, even a detailed celestial map. It calculates solstices and many other
things.
See http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets
Fantastic!
A
simpler program (freeware) for Palm is RiseSet, which gives Rise, Set,
Transit, Altitude, Azimuth and Day Length.
It can be found, as well as othe
nice programs, on the author's David W. Bray web site http://www.40-below.com/palm/
Highly
recommended!
There is also info for the development of Palm programs: maybe
the source of DC can be used to compile a Palm version?
Yet another
program is Sol! (shareware)
Palm PDAs have the advantage that they use
a very stable OS, very compact programs, and a lot of freeware and shareware
is available.
Look for example at http://www.palmgear.com or www.palmsource.com among many other
download sites (Tucows, etc.)
Cheers,
Thierry
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Robert Terwilliger wrote:
Richard Hollands wrote:
Last comment in this thread!
I hope not. I have been following the thread, and I am planning to update
the NASS / Dialist Companion web pages to help people with handhelds to
install and use DC.
PocketDos sounds like it may be essential, and I suspect Richard is right -
the Clock Screen will try to access PC video hadware directly - and not find
it.
Please post general comments to the list. Specific comments, and those about
specific handhelds can be sent directly to me.
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Thanks,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Hollands
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:55 AM
To: John Carmichael; Sundial List
Subject: RE: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
OK, not perfectly. The clock page doesn't work at all. I'm
guessing it's trying to access the hardware directly.
Last comment in this thread!
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Hollands
Sent: 09 May 2005 22:46
To: John Carmichael; Sundial List
Subject: RE: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
John,
Just to complete the story: I just downloaded Pocket DOS and
the Dialists Companion and they both run perfectly. You have
to install DC on your PC then copy the files across. The
install program won't run under PocketDOS.
(DC runs under Pocket DOS not Windows CE)
My Pocket PC is an HP Ipaq 4700, an expensive beast but
that's what unexpected bonuses are for. I'll play with the
Dialists Companion now so talk to you later :-)
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Hollands
Sent: 09 May 2005 22:18
To: John Carmichael; Sundial List
Subject: RE: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
John,
The Dialists Companion is a DOS program and, despite what the
website says, isn't compatible with any version of Windows CE.
However, if you're so at home with DC you want it on your
palm-top you can get PocketDOS from www.pocketdos.com which
is a PC emulator which will run on most palm-top PCs. I've
used the earlier version and it really is a very good
emulator. Altogether costing pocket money really and you can
trial it first anyway.
What I'd like is Helmut's 'Sonne' for Pocket PC ...
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Carmichael
Sent: 09 May 2005 16:06
To: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
Hello Richard:
It's good to know that at least one of you has had success
using a sun program with a palm-held devise. There is hope!
I don't know much about these minicomputers. Do you think all
types hand-held devices will work? Could you recommend a
brand and model number?
Ideally, it would be good to find one that works with Dialist
Companion also.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hollands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:24 AM
Subject: RE: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
I've transferred the 'Ubisol' page to my pocket PC and it works OK.
Palm devices don't generally allow pop-ups which the page uses for
changing your co-ordinates but you can just type them in the form
fields and hit Enter.
You do need to have _javascript_ enabled for it to work.
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Carmichael
Sent: 08 May 2005 17:37
To: anselmo
Cc: Sundial List
Subject: Re: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
On my crummy cell phone that has limited internet capacity,
I was not
able to use either the BSS "Where's the sun" or the Spanish
"Ubisol"
website that Anselmo mentioned.
Has anyone had any success using these two websites on a palm-held
computer?
How about Dialist Companion?
thanks,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "anselmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Lusby Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Handheld dialing software; BSS Web site
On Thu, 5 May 2005 18:55:09 +0100, Chris Lusby Taylor wrote
Hi All,
I am the BSS Webmaster and created that new page on the BSS Web
site. From the home page, click on "Where is the sun?". It uses
_javascript_ embedded in the page, and takes the time from your
computer's clock, so you could make the page available offline if
you wished. It should run in any current browser, I trust, but
please let me know if you have problems.
Dear all,
"Where is the sun?" has got a (probably unnoticed) elder brother in
http://www.relojesdesol.org/UbiSolENG.html
It works also as an embedded _javascript_ and updates automatically.
I've tried to make the code simple enough to be easily
hacked by any
interested user (see file UbiSol.js).
Let's hope that the eldest brother, that is, "Dialist Companion"
soon goes down to the earthly kingdom of JS scripts.
Ah, and congratulations, Chris, and thanks: I've taken some ideas
from it for future versions of UbiSol! :-))))
Anselmo
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