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TIMAEUS v 6 32 bit SHAREWARE RELEASE NOTES
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This file contains important information.  I recommend that 
you read this file in its entirety.

This program monitors the sky for changing astrological
conditions and reports your "daily horoscope" based upon 
aspects to natal positions.  It is also capable of sounding 
audible alerts when a planet/degree crosses an angle.  It 
displays the current planetary hour glyph in the system 
tray.  Timaeus is a "real time" monitor of astrological 
events, but can be used to research future or past dates.

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CONTENTS
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-- INSTALLATION NOTES

-- SETTINGS

-- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION

-- TIMAEUS v 6 KNOWN ISSUES

-- ONLINE HELP

-- ZOIDIASOFT ON THE WEB

-- TECH SUPPORT

-- CREDITS

-- ORDERING

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INSTALLATION NOTES
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Minimum system requirements:

  * Intel Pentium or higher
  * Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4, 00, Me, Xp
  * Memory: 16MB of RAM
  * 40 MB hard disk space
  * VGA or higher resolution monitor
  * Mouse or other pointing device
	
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Installing Timaeus 32 bit:
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** To install, after unzipping the files to a temporary 
directory, click on setup.exe and follow the instructions.

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SETTINGS
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Timaeus needs to know your geographic location.  To find
your location, go to:

http://www.astrology-x-files.com/install.html

You will need to set your time zone and check whether you
are currently on daylight/summer time.

Then check how often you want it to recalculate the hour
status and whether or not you want to have a beep at the
hour change.

If you want to monitor your birth chart for aspects, you
will have to set this up as well.

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WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION
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Version 6.1.0.3 - Fixed bug that reset the date on the 
Horoscope tab back to the current date when transits are 
wanted for different dates.

Version 6.0.8.2 - Changed the date formatting in the 
Setup Wizard and changed the handling of latitude and 
longitude fields slightly.  The date format now allows a
'-' for the date separator.  I recommend that for dates 
prior to 0 AD that you type  BC  after the date with a 
single space in between.  You can use the '-' symbol to
separate date characters but also for dates in the BCE 
range.  Note that if you use '-' for BC dates such as: 
6/10/-321 or 6-10--321 (latter looks a bit strange but 
works), you must remember to add a year.  The above date 
is for 322 BC but must be written as -321 when using a 
'-' or you could just write it like this: 6-10-322 BC.

Version 6.0.8 - Removed the old technique of loading an 
application in the system tray using the IsLibrary prop 
in favor of using the TCoolTrayIcon component.  I haven't 
actually implemented this component fully yet since the  
old code works.  This is a test fix for a potential cause 
of Timaeus not running when the Kerio firewall is 
installed.  Different firewalls seem to have no ill effect 
on Timaeus such as the Norton or Windows firewalls.

Version 6.0.7 - This synchronizes the font used between 
Timaeus and Delphic Oracle so that those using both 
programs will not have different glyphs used between the
two applications.  There is a new checkbox to switch to 
and from the hermetic lot glyphs for the Asc, Mc, Fortune 
and Spirit on the Glyphs Tab of the ChartWheel Designer.

Version 6.0.6 - Contains a fix for chart orientation bug. 
If the lot of fortune falls near a sign boundary and the 
glyph separation routines put fortune into the next sign 
so that other glyphs would not be overwritten, then it 
was possible to have the wrong sign at the 9 o'clock 
position, due to the fact that the glyph separation value 
pushed it into the next sign.  This update uses the actual 
value for the lot of fortune when calculating the chart 
orientation now.  Also I'd been playing around with the 
re-sizing of the chart window and forgot to re-include a 
line centering the drawing of the boundaries / terms 
which is important if you want the flood fill color to 
not bleed into surrounding boundaries.  This has been 
fixed as well.

Version 6.0.5 - Contains a correction for the recurring 
GPF bug.  This was caused by not initializing one of the 
new CMDateTime components in the Swiss Ephemeris unit to 
the correct date style.

Version 6.0.4 - Added debug info for those of you who are 
having problems running Timaeus.  If you get a message 
stating "Access Violation at ... read of Address ..." then
send me an email with the error address location so that 
I can trace this error.

Version 6.0.3 - Changed the glyph separation properties so 
that integers are read instead of real numbers since some 
regional settings could cause problems upon startup.

Version 6.0.2 - Improved the efficiency of calculations of 
updates to planet and angle positions.  Also changed the 
behavior of the themes so that restoring a theme setting 
that has already been saved requires a double click on that 
theme.  This is so that a single click will highlight the 
theme so that it can be deleted without loading that 
theme's settings into the ChartWheel Designer.

Version 6.0.1 - Added the Chart Designer from Delphic
Oracle to Timaeus which includes themes for grouping your
color and visibility settings.  The installation includes
my registry settings for color and visibility.

When coming up with a new color theme for your charts, it
is helpful to set the foreground and background colors
first, keeping in mind the contrast between these 2 colors
is important.  When setting the glyph colors, it is also
important to keep the background color in mind.

Timaeus has the ability to show bi-wheels and 6 different
chart orientations along with fortune, dynamical or topical
house division numbering.  The Wheel setup button handles
this and is located on the birth charts tab and on the
toolbar for the chart display as well.

To see transits to your natal chart when you double click 
on the icon in your system tray, you need to set the 
double click behavior to "Transits to Natal" on the Options 
Tab.  You will also need to open your chart in the Birth 
Charts tab.   Timaeus assumes that if there are multiple 
charts showing, the one that is selected in the list is the 
chart to be shown in the inner wheel, and if no chart is 
selected, that the first one on the list is to be shown on 
the inside wheel when you double click.  If there are no
charts open, then Timaeus shows a single wheel with the 
current sky conditions.

The new Chart Viewer can also be put into real time or
static mode.  When in real time, the chart display shows
the current sky and keeps up with the position update
frequency you specify on the Settings Tab.  Static mode
is the default and keeps the display the same so you can
study the position.

Since the Chartwheel Designer is the same as the one in 
Delphic Oracle, you can read more about it online:

http://www.astrology-x-files.com/help-delphicoracle/
chartdesignercnt.html

Timaeus now uses the Swiss Ephemeris to find the times of
sunrise and sunset.  This includes calculation for 
atmospheric refraction with weather conditions as inputs
on the Settings Tab for temperature, atmospheric pressure
and altitude above sea level in meters.  These last 3
settings have a very minimal effect, but should please
the hyper-virgos among you.

The ACS Atlas lookup now behaves differently.  Upon lookup,
the Atlas will either display the results if found, or 
give a message as to the result just to the right of the 
checkbox "ACS Atlas Auto Lookup".  If nothing shows and
new data is found, it is listed in the edit fields, but
if the Atlas requires further input, it will either say 
"Not Found" or "Duplicates".  In the first case, the Atlas
did not find what you were looking for.  In the 2nd, it 
found multiple results.  In either case, you must open the
Atlas window by clicking the globe speed button next to 
the Zone button.  This means that if you are fortunate 
enough to live in a location with a unique name, that you
can leave the Auto Lookup checkbox checked, and expect it
to update Timaeus when you make the switch from Daylight/
Summer time to Standard time and vice versa (Timaeus 
checks this at program startup).

One last note: On the chart display, you will notice that
if you hover your mouse over a glyph that there is alot of
new information.  The most information is found for the 
planets [Sun..Saturn].  The new info is Hellenistic in 
origin and originally comes from Delphic Oracle v 4 which 
will be out soon.

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Version 5.7.0 - Finished writing the delineations for the 
aspects according to house lord.

Version 5.6.6 - Added ability to draw dynamical house 
division lines along with whole sign house lines (at Zero 
degrees of each sign).  New checkboxes for these settings 
are found on the options tab under the house selection.

Version 5.6.5 - Fixed a bug in the time exception handling 
section of the Horoscope Tab.

Version 5.6.4 - Added transparency to the chart drawings 
for chart position locations.  Before this, if you used a 
small glyph separation value, the degree symbols could 
partially white out an adjacent degree symbols if they 
were too close.

Version 5.6.3 - I decided to reverse the conditional ACS
Atlas checkbox so that now Atlas lookups will only happen 
when Auto Lookup is checked.  It is important to note that 
when the Atlas finds a duplicate location, the ACS Atlas 
window will pop up so that you can specify which similarly
named location you want to select.  Afterwards, be sure 
to uncheck this checkbox because the tab order could 
cause the Atlas window to show again if you forget.  
Click Apply or Save to make the settings permanent.

Version 5.6.1 - Fixed bug in Atlas duplicate lookups by
adding a checkbox that suppresses further lookups after a
duplicate city has been found.  It is advised that the
first time you do a lookup for a location that you leave
this checkbox unchecked.

Version 5.5.4 - Added more delineations, but still a few
left to do.

Version 5.5.3 - I am in the middle of adding delineations 
of transits by local determination (lord of house).

Version 5.5.2 - Corrects a bug where Chiron shows at 0 
Aries if Kronos is not checked in the Options Tab (It 
should have been Chiron assignment, not Kronos).  Also 
added the ability to use shortcut keys in cut, copy and 
paste in edit fields for latitude, longitude, date, etc.

Version 5.5.1 - I have changed the internal file format in 
order make birth chart files (*.cht) independent of runtime 
changes between European, American and Scientific date 
formats.  A new format has been implemented and in order to 
use your existing chart files, you will need to download 
and run the file conversion utility (fileconv.zip).

http://www.astrology-x-files.com/programs/fileconv.zip

Version 5.5 - adds the dll interface for the ACS Atlas. 
You will be able to lookup location and zone info for more 
than 250,000 distinct locations worldwide.  Internally a 
new chart file format has been implemented, but Timaeus 
can still read the old file format.  You may pick up your 
copy of the Atlas directly from Astro Communications 
Services at a discount (see below in the Credits section).
With the Atlas, Timaeus automatically checks for time zone 
changes that occur with daylight savings / summer time at 
startup, streamlines the setup of birth charts and allows 
you to switch between locations by a single click on the 
settings tab.

Version 5.0.4 - Lowered price to $19.95, and CD shipping
charge is now $5 instead of $6.  The exe and dll files are 
now compressed (without loss of computation speed) by UPX.
See credits section for more information.

Version 5.0.3 - Makes corrections to trial period checking
so that Timaeus does not end your trial period prematurely.

Version 5.0.2 - Uses the new InstallShield to install 
Timaeus which has a repair / modify feature.  This also
means that the installation file will be significantly
more compact, insuring quicker downloads.  A new icon will
appear on your desktop for the Setup Wizard.  You should 
run this the first time you run Timaeus to set up your
location and your first birth chart.

Version 5.0.1 - Adds an updated help file with thoroughly
integrated help context support.  Click on the question
mark at the top right of the window and click on what you
don't understand.  A help window will go directly to the 
explanation.

Version 5.0.0 - There are two major features added to this
application.  First is the ability to cast charts for 
planetary positions and display them graphically as well as
the ability to display a chart for the current sky.  This
program now uses the Swiss Ephemeris to calculate planetary
positions.

The next feature added is similar to the audible alerts
when a planet/degree crosses an angle, but instead, Timaeus
monitors the sky for aspects to natal charts that you cast,
and displays aspect information and delineation meanings of
the aspects.  This is found on the horoscope tab.  To use 
this feature you will first have to cast a natal chart by
clicking "New" on the "birth charts" tab.  A new chart
dialog will open up.  Once you have created the chart it
will display in the main listbox on the birth charts tab.
All charts that remain in the list are automatically 
retained and do not need to be saved, but if you wish to 
transfer the chart to Delphic Oracle, you need to save the 
chart and open it in Delphic Oracle, which is the reason
for the other buttons because you can also open charts in
Timaeus that were created in Delphic Oracle.  You can 
monitor as many charts as you wish to.  Once you have the
charts set up, then you go to the horoscope tab and select
a chart from the "select chart" listbox.  Double clicking
here will display the chart, a single click sets that chart
as the one to be researched.  Next set the date directly 
below the listbox (switching to this tab automatically
sets it to the current date and time).  Now you are ready
to see what aspects exist between the current sky positions
and the natal chart, so click "transiting aspects" and a
new list at the top will say "Astrological Indicators for..."
(the name of the chart).  It lists the aspect, the number of
degrees it is from exact, and whether it is applying or 
separating.  Applying aspects will be exact in the future
and show things that are in the future, separating aspects
show things from the recent past.  By clicking on the 
aspect, you will get what it means in the memo field below.
The other button in the "Horoscope Types" section that says
"planetary hours" shows the meaning of the current hour, 
and is a hold over from previous versions of Timaeus.

*** One important note:  To save on system resources, the
program stops updating planetary hour and position stats
whenever you have the notebook tab window open, with the
exception that updates resume if the statistics, schedule,
registration or about tabs are showing.  This means that if
you have been looking at aspects, and have spent 20 minutes
with that window open, clicking "View Current Sky" will 
show the sky as it was 20 minutes ago.  To resume, click
on the statistics tab and wait until the interval has 
updated.

There are many new settings on the options tab, most are 
related to the way graphical charts are displayed.  The 
most important setting that you are probably interested in 
is the "Transiting Aspect Orb".  This is used to exclude
aspects outside a given range.  Make this value higher to
include more aspects in your listing on the horoscope tab, 
or make it smaller to reduce the number of aspects listed. 
The "Default tab on double click" option is for selecting 
the behavior of Timaeus when you double click the icon in 
the system tray.  Select "View Current Sky" if you want to
see a graphical representation of the planets in the sky
when you double click the icon in the system tray.  The 
other options show various tabs in the application itself.
The Swiss Ephemeris path is the path to where you installed
the Swiss Ephemeris if you have it, if not then it uses the 
Moshier ephemeris to calculate positions.  If you're using
the Moshier ephemeris, then check the checkbox below the 
ephemeris path to hide Swiss Ephemeris messages.  The 
button with the manila folder is used to browse to the 
location where you installed the Swiss Ephemeris.  There 
are options for setting the zodiac (tropical or sidereal)
whether to use the true or mean node, whether coordinates 
should be topocentric or geocentric and for date format of 
the charts.  The chart display options allow you to change
the size of the glyphs, hide or display glyphs, change 
their color, etc.  You may also drag the corner of the 
chart window to make the display larger or smaller.  
Timaeus retains information about the display options 
between reboots.  After changing the settings make sure you 
either click the OK or Apply buttons at the bottom to save 
the settings.

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Version 4.0.6 contains a fix for the leap year bug.

Version 4.0 - This version calculates the positions of the
planets.  The planetary calculation algorithms used are 
those derived by Jean Meeus in his book "Astronomical 
Algorithms" (c) 1991.  Jeffrey Sax (Belgium Astronomical 
Society) wrote the Pascal routines that calculate the 
planetary positions in Timaeus following Meeus's algorithms 
(with the exception of the Sun's position, Asc, MC, I/O 
routines/ windows routines, etc... which were done by Curt 
Manwaring).  Calculations of planet positions are highly 
accurate for the current era and gradually get worse the 
farther away from J2000 (Jan 1, 2000) you calculate 
positions for.  Timaeus rounds position results to the 
nearest arc-minute and all of the planets except Pluto 
are well within this 1 min arc accuracy.  The accuracy 
of Pluto however is not as good and can be as far off as 
30 - 40 arc minutes off for any date in our lifetimes and 
gets worse, as the time diverges from J2000.

The option to use any sidereal zodiac has been included in 
this version (along with the tropical zodiac) in the new 
"Options Tab".

Also, the alert capabilities have been expanded to include
the transiting planets crossing any of the 4 angles.  As 
for alert sounds, that too has been expanded and you can 
add your own *.wav files as long as they correspond to the
reference in the Sounds drop down list box.  Make sure 
your spelling is correct and that you include the ".wav"
extension.  For example, "aries.wav" or "sound1.wav" are 
acceptable names and will be picked up by Timaeus as long 
as it is in the same directory as Timaeus.exe.  You can
test the sound with the button to the right of the sound
drop down list box to see if you did the assignment right.

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Version 3.13 - I realized that when I fixed the bug for
the July errors last summer in version 2.1 that I had
inadvertently reinstated the Jan 11th bug (see below).  I
decided to redo several routines in my CMStarDate
component and also try the iteration method for finding 
sunrise and sunset (also explained below).  I only did 
one pass of the data (I want to know if it works first 
before going further).  Sunrise/Sunset times appear to be 
more accurate and I am guessing to within 30 seconds in 
most cases.  This method will be most accurate at the
equator and less accurate farther north or south.  At my
latitude of 43 N, the accuracy appears to be within 30 
seconds of clock time (checking against Solar Fire v4).
The Jan 11 bug appears to be gone, but I will only know 
for sure after running it for several months under various
geographic locations and with the help of users.  Please
let me know if you find hour start times running backwards
or odd length hours (about 3x's normal).

Version 3.12 makes some minor changes in hot keys, making
sure there is no redundancy in underlined letters.  It 
also takes some safety precautions to check for certain
preconditions prior to registration.

Version 3.11 includes slight changes in the registration
routine to make sure the days elapsed in trial period are
not showing after registering without restarting Timaeus.

Version 3.10 includes a setup wizard to guide you through
the proper steps of entering values in the settings tab.
It automatically shows itself when the "Settings.txt"
file is not present (meaning you have not saved your
settings) or this is your first time running Timaeus.  
You can also run this every time you wish to change your 
settings.  This wizard includes tips on how to use 
Microsoft Streets or the internet to find your latitude 
and longitude settings in either decimal or degree, 
minute, and seconds notation.

I have also moved the notification of days remaining in
the trial period to the more logical location of the
registration tab.  I also changed my company banner.

Version 3.03 includes small changes to make it easier to
register Timaeus.

Version 3.02 added code to make sure the invisible lisbox 
gets cleared before printing in case someone clicks the OK 
button on the schedule tab more than once to list the 
hours.  Timaeus will also now remember where you leave the 
main window after rebooting the machine.  It no longer 
automatically comes up to the center of the screen.  Many 
users prefer for the window to pop up near the system tray.  
If this is your first time running Timaeus, it will show up 
at the top left.

Version 3.01 makes small modifications to the data output
so that the appearance is a little cleaner.  I also took 
care of a long overdue improvement in the settings tab:
 
In previous versions, if you typed in a "n" or "s" for 
latitude or something similar in longitude, or just made 
a typo, and then selected "update every second" you would 
get an error every second (faster than you could close out 
the popup windows) which required a <CTL>|<ALT>|<DEL> to 
solve the problem.  Now if you make this mistake, there is 
only a single error message and a default value of either 
N or W is entered (depending upon whether it is latitude 
or longitude).  Also, lowercase values that are not in 
error are automatically converted to uppercase.

Related to the above issue, Timaeus now guesses your time
zone based upon what you entered into the longitude part
of your settings.  It isn't guaranteed to be correct, but 
it will be at least close.  You should still check it to
be sure.

Version 3.0 includes several new features:

*** Calculation of the ascendant, midheaven and vertex in
real time based upon the coordinates on your settings tab.
Until I include the nutation calculation, the accuracy of
these angles will be to about (+/-) 5 arc minutes (about
20 seconds of clock time).  The nutation algorithm will 
increase accuracy to about 1/10th of an arc minute (about
0.4 seconds of clock time).  However your actual accuracy
is partially dependent upon what you set the "update
frequency" to in your setting tab.

*** Hints in the system tray saying what the ascendant
and midheaven degrees are: in "dd SS mm" notation.

*** The ability to set user defined alerts for when any 
degree of the zodiac is rising, culminating, setting or 
anti-culminating.  These alerts can either be a system 
beep, user defined 'wav' file, or silent tray icon alert.  
All three options include changes in the system tray icon 
at alert time but the last option is silent.  Also the 
name you give for the alert will appear as a hint in the 
system tray at alert time.  The icon at alert time 
appears with a red exclamation point to the right of the 
glyph that represents the current planetary hour.  I 
included 12 alerts by default which will alert you when 
a given zodiac sign begins to rise (set at 0 degrees).  
You can set any degree you wish such as important degrees 
that are occupied by planets in your natal chart.  When 
setting an alert for the IC or descendant (say you want 
to know when your natal Moon at 11 degrees Leo sets),
just select the opposite degree (at 11 Aquarius) with 
the rising option, then name that alert something like
"Natal Moon setting".

*** The ability to print out planetary hours listed on
the schedule tab.  You can either click the speed button
to the lower right or right click the listing and select
print.

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Version 2.1 gets rid of the Jan 10/11th and July errors 
that produced incorrect sunrise/sunset times!  As far as
I know, planetary hours will now be accurate to within 2
minutes.  While I am not entirely happy with this level
of accuracy, it is quite sufficient for astrological use.
Astrologers who use planetary hours know that the time 
when a planetary hour changes is really about 50% of the 
previous hour and 50% of the next hour.  Most astrologers
recommend that you wait 10-15 minutes into the start of 
the hour to be sure the planetary energies are more 
"pure".  Part of the reason for this approximation is 
that the Sun's position is not known exactly and will 
move 1/2 degree every 12 hours, since 360 degrees 
represents 24 hours, 1/2 a degree represents about 2 
minutes.  I used the Algorithm in J. L Lawrence's 
"Basic Astronomy with a PC" for sunrise/sunset on pages 
69-70.  It interpolates a set of sunrise and sunset data 
based on midnight UT for the date in question and again 
24 hours later.  The problem is that the position of the 
Sun for a given location is only an approximation.  What 
is really needed is an iterative algorithm that will 
first approximate the Sun's position in that location at 
the expected time of sunrise to see if that position 
matches the position of the ascendant, if not then find 
the difference in degrees, converting to time and 
subtract or add the difference in terms of minutes and 
seconds, repeating until the difference reduces to a 
sufficient level of accuracy.

Here is what was in the old Readme.txt about this error:
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(*** There remains one problem where planetary hours 
calculated on Jan 10th or 11th each year are aprox. 3 x's 
as long as they should be, resembling the error that those 
in the far east were having with previous versions.  This 
is a bug which corrects itself on the next day each year.
This error existed in the previous version and still 
affects everyone.  There is also the flipside of this 
which shortens the planetary hours about 6 months later 
for about 12 hours.  I charted this error and the pattern 
is that on July 6th each year those living in the San 
Diego - Los Angeles area (about a 250 mile wide corridor) 
will experience this error.  On July 7th this error zone 
moves to the north east near Las Vegas but is correct 
for the Los Angeles area.  On the 8th it moves to SW 
Utah, etc and moves in a line like this one day at a 
time until July 29th near the Hudson Bay in Canada.  
This error zone is probably in the pacific ocean before 
July 6th.)
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In version 2.02 I have added code to update the meanings
if the hour should change after you first look at it.  
This was only an issue if you set the default tab to the
meanings tab.  Now it will update to the current hour
without your having to switch tabs back and forth.

In version 2.01 I have added code to update the latitude
and longitude for users in southern and eastern
hemispheres when they click the "Here / Now" button on
the schedule tab.  It was an oversight on my part but 
easily fixed by adding 2 lines of code.

In version 2.0:
Many have been asking for inclusion of a "Schedule Tab" 
to get a listing of planetary hours that are not current. 
It is now available in this version.  I have made it a 
simple matter to get the hours for the current date in 
your default location with one click of the "Here / Now" 
button.  Then all you have to do is select which hours to 
find (day or night) or click the "Find Hours" button.  You 
also have the flexibility to edit any of the search 
settings to find planetary hours for dates between Jan 1, 
4712 BC to Dec 31, 10,000 AD in any non-polar area of the 
globe!

Timaeus now includes "wav" files for sound at the change
of the hour.  This provides the advantage of knowing what
hour it is without having to look at the monitor at the
start of a new hour.  The system beep is still available
for those who lack a sound card in their PC.  To change
the hour find a new *.wav file to replace the hour sound
you wish to improve.  All you have to do is rename the 
"wav" file to the planet whose file you want to replace 
with the new file.  If you are unsure you want to get rid 
of the file then you should rename the original file to
*.oldwav.  Make sure this new file is in the same 
directory as timaeus.exe.

There is a new setting for loading a default notebook tab 
on the settings page.  Before if you double clicked the 
planet glyph in the system tray, it brought up the 
"Current Hour" tab without any way to change it.  Now 
you can set your own preference and save it along with 
the other settings.

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***** Don't forget to make backup copies!

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TIMAEUS v 6.0 KNOWN ISSUES
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The popup menu might linger if you right click the icon 
in the system tray but decide to do something else other 
that select an option.

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DOWNLOADING UPDATED HELP FILES
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The online Help files that accompany this release may be 
updated from time to time to provide corrections, 
clarification, additional examples and other new 
information.  Updates will be available for download from 
the Lost Horoscope X-Files Web site at:

http://www.astrology-x-files.com/help-download.html

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ZOIDIASOFT ON THE WEB
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Zoidiasoft Technologies:

  http://www.astrology-x-files.com

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For More Information On The Ancient methods:

  http://www.projecthindsight.com

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TECH SUPPORT
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The author, Curt Manwaring may be reached for tech support: 
email: tech@astrology-x-files.com or phone: 315-200-2025

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CREDITS
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The Swiss Ephemeris, of course, needs no explanation.

The ACS Atlas was developed by Astro Communications 
Services and can be found at: http://www.astrocom.com.
Contact Bill Purchase for special pricing discounts.

Kenneth Hirst developed the "Astro" font back in 1993 and 
with a few modifications, it is now also licensed to Curtis 
Manwaring.  This font was originally used in the program 
"Astrology World".  As for the modifications, Ken 
"fontified" the drawings of the glyphs that I made for the 
lots of fortune, spirit, exaltation and basis.

Astro font is Copyright 1993, Cosmorama Enterprises, P.O. 
Box 5362, Irvine, California 92716. All rights reserved.
This font is proprietary.

Timaeus exe and dll files use UPX to keep file sizes small.  
It was developed by Markus Oberhumer and Laszlo Molnar:
web: http://upx.sourceforge.net

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