Installing HEAVENSAT

From: Greg Roberts (grr@telkomsa.net)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2006 - 02:39:13 EDT

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Morning all

Some people have experienced problems installing
HEAVENSAT ( I did !) so here are detailed instructions.

Download the following files:

(1) OpenGL version of HEAVENSAT1.97 ( current version),
file size 4.7 Mbytes

(2) Microsoft VC80.CRT  0.6 Mbyes

(3) Sky2000 Master Catalog V4  11.1 Mbytes.

With your unzipper (WINZIP/WINRAR whatever-
click on  HEAVENSAT197gl.ZIP and extract to 

C:\Heavensat

It should do this and you will have a directory structure

C:\Heavensat\Heavensat197gl\ 

and all the files and created subdirectories will be in the sub
directory "Heavensat197gl".

Now a bit of fiddling - copy all the files in this directory(ie the
one marked "Heavensat197gl" into  C:\Heavensat . Having done
this then delete the subdirectory Heavensat197gl.

Now click on Microsoft VC80CRT.zip and extract to

C:\Heavensat\

Click on Sky2000.zip and extract to   C:\Heavensat.

It should now all be okay but if not this is the directory structure
I have on my PC:

C:\HEAVENSAT
    with subdirectories 
     BITMAPS,  INI, LANGUAGES,  MICROSOFT CVC80.CRT, 
     STARCATALOGS, and TLE

with the following files in the C:\HEAVENSAT directory:

coin2.dll, conlines.dat, font.ttf, Heavensat.exe, mcnames, moon.dat,
ms.dat, sats.dat, simage1.dll, sowin1.dll, wxadv.dll, wxbase26.dll
and wxcore.dll

The subdirectories contain :

BITMAPS - lots of BMP and PNG files
INI     - Calcululations.ini, Chart.ini, Common.ini, Observer.ini
             Satellites.ini,  Sky.ini,  Stars.ini     ( 7 in total)
LANGUAGES - English.LNG, Russian.LNG
MICROSOFT.VC80.CRT -- Microsoft VC80.CRT.manifest,
             msvcm80.dll,  msvcp80.dll, msvcr80.dll
STARCATALOGS - bsc.bin   ,  sky2000.bin
TLE - has a sample TXT file. Suggest you delete this and put in
          your own elements database. Extension TXT or TLE okay
          I put in the large SPACTRACK ~8500 version plus
          CLASSFD.TLE.

All this is quicker to do than try and explain :-))

All should now run okay when you click on HEAVENSAT.EXE.
Dont forget to set your coordinates and select the satellite TLE
database you want.

Cheers
Greg

PS Hope I havent made too many mistakes- still half asleep
and havent had my breakfast yet.

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