------------------ PocketSat+ v1.9 10 December, 2004 ------------------ ***** PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION (PocketSatPlus.pdf) ***** ***** BEFORE INSTALLING. ***** ==== Installation ==== (This is covered in more detail in the PDF docs. Please read them.) There are 2 files that must be installed on your Palm Pilot in order to use PocketSat+: - PocketSatPlus.prc. This is the application itself. - PSPlusMaps_XXX.prc. Where XXX is 'Color', 'Gray'or 'BW'. Color and Gray version come in regular and 'HR' (320x320) versions. *** ONLY LOAD ONE MAP! *** - Mathlib.prc. This is Rich Heubner's invaluable double precision math library. A third file, sampsats.pdb, is a PocketSat input database containing some (almost certainly out-of-date) sample satellite orbit data. You can either install this database to play with, or ignore it and go to the PocketSat+ web site ( http://www.bigfattail.com ) to get current data. ==== Update information: ==== PocketSat+ is registration code based shareware. Registered users can simply download and install new versions and registration codes will work with the upgrades. If you are upgrading from an older version (v1.5 or earlier), be sure to write down your registration code before loading the new version. You will have to enter it again. ==== Registration ==== After messing about the PocketSat+, if you decide that you would like to register it (many functions are faster if you do so) go to www.bigfattail.com in order to purchase a registration code. The cost is US$25, or US$12.50 if you are a registered user of the original PocketSat for PalmOS. See the web site for details. PLEASE don't register PocketSat+ until you've used it unregistered and know that it works for you. It's a pretty complicated application and requires a fair amount of upkeep. Refunding money is pretty difficult and it makes me feel bad to have unhappy customers :-) ============ Notes, comments bug reports should be posted to the support forums at http://forums.bigfattail.com Main web site: www.bigfattail.com ==== Release Notes ==== V1.9 - 10 December, 2004 - Incorporates display fixes from V1.8c. Should work on all Palms (except Garmin IQueue 3600's) - "Age" column in satellites list is now sortable (so you can get rid of those really old TLEs...) - For card installs, Map Database is no longer left on the device. - Once again works with older (pre v3.5) PalmOS versions. - Added Hi-Res grayscale map. V1.8c - Test version to try to fix some display issues V1.7 - Fixed PalmOS5 display issues, particularly with rotated screens. - Now allows tracking of up to 20 satellites at the same time. - Fixed (finally, I hope) VFS issues allowing PS+ to run properly from memory cards - "Spinny thing" is not displayed during pass calculations oon OS5 machines. It was slowing things down. V1.6 Was a sort-of interim bug fixing attempt... It died on the vine. V1.5 - Added PalmOS 5 HiRes support - Added custom color selection - Added "night vision" red mode. - Fixed a bug when drawing the unlit Earth that resulted in light stripes. - Fixed crash when attempting to delete an import DB when none is selected. - Fixed crash when attempting to delete an import memo when none is selected. V1.4 - 30 October, 2002 - Added a satellite availability display to the Pass List form to show in tabular fashion how many satellites meet availability citeria during the Pass List period. - Added a new "Clock" preferences page allowing separate control of system clock and display clock time zones, as well as the ability to read time zone and DST info directly from PalmOS versions that support it (PalmOS 4 and above.) - Added "Invert Selection" menu action in satellite list form. - A new 'Sync' button on the Pass List form will set the time and current satellite to match the selected pass. - Completely rewrote pass finding code to work properly with non-LEO satellites and better with LEO ones. - Sped-up pass calculation for LEO satellites - Fixed name sorting bug that would crash the program with more than 1600 or so satellites displayed. Now the limit is more like 2600, and the program will work if you exceed it, it just won't sort the satellites by name. - Set Time dialog now allows for you to set seconds. - The 3D buttons now "click" when pressed. - Fixed a bug in the computation of the location on the Earth's surface of the sub-satellite point. - Color maps DB now has the palette arranged in such a way as to cause minimal problems with a Sony NR70 virtual graffiti area. V1.3 - 2 Sept, 2002 - Added lit/unlit Earth display for color and gray devices. - Optimized visible footprint plotting (5x faster) - Added prefs options to plot footprint and lit/dark Earth - Fixed a crash when import DBs contained certain bad data - Fixed a bug when dealing with sats with very large (fake) IDs - Bad TLE data in an otherwise OK file now just skips the bad satellite and continues. V1.2 - 22 Aug, 2002 - Checking and unchecking a satellite no longer deselects the row. - Setting the date from the Map and Sky views no longer freezes the screen. - Elevations between 0 and -1 degrees now have a minus sign. - There's a workaround for a bug in Handspring's PalmOS that caused labels in the "Sky" and "Pass plot" forms to show as empty boxes. - If current category is "all" it is changed to "unfiled" in the import forms. - The pass calculation progress bar now works properly. V1.1 - 14 Aug, 2002 - Now automatically puts Clies into appropriate (160x160) resolution mode - Fixed registration code bug involving accented chars - Fixed "Invert plot E/W" option - Fixed crash if you tried to import or delete a non-existent memo or db - Fixed disappearing menus on Kyocera smartphones. - Fixed column heading "bleedthru" into menu V1.0 - 9 Aug, 2002 - Initial release.