
CyberSky for Windows 3.1

Shareware Version 2.0

Copyright (c) 1997 Stephen Michael Schimpf. All rights reserved.


This VENDOR.TXT file contains information for shareware distributors, 
disk vendors, BBS sysops, and computer clubs who wish to distribute 
CyberSky.


Categories and Keywords
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CYBERSKY WINDOWS SCIENCE ASTRONOMY PLANETARIUM STARS CONSTELLATIONS PLANETS


Short Description
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CyberSky is a colorful, easy-to-use planetarium program for Windows.


Long Description
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CyberSky is a colorful, easy-to-use program that transforms your 
computer screen into a planetarium, allowing you to learn about 
astronomy by exploring the sky in the past, present, and future!

CyberSky can truly be thought of as a desktop planetarium, because it 
duplicates the features of a traditional planetarium on your computer 
screen. CyberSky provides an excellent way for you to learn the names 
and locations of the constellations, the names of the stars, and to 
become familiar with the motions of the sun, moon, and planets across 
the sky. CyberSky provides a superb, innovative, and motivating learning 
environment. It places the sky under your control.

If you've already learned these basics, CyberSky is a great way to 
conveniently check out "what's up" tonight without leaving your desk. 
Or, use it to find out what you'll be able to see next weekend, or next 
month. Some people use CyberSky to learn to identify the stars and 
constellations they'll be able to see for the first time when they take 
a vacation to another hemisphere. And, don't forget the past! What did 
the sky look like on the day you were born?

One of CyberSky's most powerful and educational features is its ability 
to animate the display, allowing you to see "movies" of the changing 
appearance of the sky over time. Many of the most basic and interesting 
astronomical phenomena can only be observed over days or months of time, 
or by observing the sky in the distant past or future. CyberSky 
compresses these time spans into minutes, thereby allowing you to learn 
things about astronomy that previously would have required days or weeks 
of stargazing or a trip to a planetarium to learn.

If you have an interest in astronomy, CyberSky will provide hours of fun 
and education for you and your family.


System Requirements
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Personal computer running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, a 386 or faster 
processor, 8 MB of memory, about 2 MB of disk space, a video card 
capable of displaying 256 or more colors, and a Microsoft mouse or 
compatible pointing device.


Distribution Information
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CyberSky is copyrighted software marketed as "shareware". It must never 
be described as "public domain" or "free" software. Any vendor 
publication that lists CyberSky must contain a clear explanation of the 
shareware concept and this information must be visible to customers 
before they pay a fee to the vendor.

Any distribution of CyberSky must contain all original files in their 
unmodified form. CyberSky should be distributed as a ZIP archive with 
one of the following names.

    Windows 3.1     Windows 95
    ------------    ------------
    CYBERSKY.ZIP    CYBERSKY.ZIP
    CYBSKY20.ZIP    CYBSKY20.ZIP
    CYBSKY16.ZIP    CYBSKY32.ZIP
    CSKY1620.ZIP    CSKY3220.ZIP

It is permitted to split an archive into smaller parts if necessary and 
to modify the names of those files in a reasonable manner. It is also 
permitted to convert a distribution file into a self-extracting 
executable file, in which case the file should have one of the above 
names with the ZIP extension replaced by an EXE extension.

Before distributing CyberSky, please determine whether the version you 
have is the most recent version available. CyberSky is always available 
from the CyberSky Home Page at the address listed below, as well as from 
the Astronomy Forum and other forums on CompuServe.


Registration Information
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A single copy of the registered version of CyberSky costs US$ 25 plus 
US$ 3 for shipping & handling. Site licenses are available for educational 
institutions at very reasonable prices! Complete information about 
purchasing the registered version of CyberSky is available in CyberSky's 
Program Manager group as well as in its Help file.


Contact Information
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E-mail. If you'd like to contact me as quickly as possible, please send 
e-mail to the following address.

    76763.1065@compuserve.com

Postal mail. Send a letter to the following address via postal mail.

    Stephen Michael Schimpf
    2444 West 230th Street
    Torrance, CA 90501-5242

Telephone. Call the following number between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM 
Pacific time Monday through Friday only.

    310-530-6766

World Wide Web. Use the following address to visit the CyberSky Home 
Page on the World Wide Web.

    http://www.astro.ucla.edu/staff/stephen/cybersky.html

