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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: blobrana on November 04, 2008, 11:23:17 PM

Title: Distant Suns
Post by: blobrana on November 04, 2008, 11:23:17 PM

Award winning astronomy package Distant Suns written by Mike Smithwick of First Light Software is now available at the iTunes AppStore.
Distant Suns will turn your iPhone and iPod touch into a handheld planetarium.

Read more (http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/16014/2/)

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: cecilia on November 05, 2008, 01:06:40 AM

wow , that's fantastic! Loved that program on my amiga!

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: drewz21 on November 05, 2008, 02:33:20 AM

One of my all time favorite Amiga programs.  Thanks for the info as I've already purchased it and put it on my iPhone.

:-)

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: cecilia on November 05, 2008, 03:03:43 AM

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drewz21 wrote:
One of my all time favorite Amiga programs.  Thanks for the info as I've already purchased it and put it on my iPhone.

:-)

cool! how does it look??
is it possible to make screen shots?

is it easy to use?

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: blobrana on November 05, 2008, 01:09:54 PM

Easy of use was on of the selling points of Distant Suns.

But here are two links to make it more complicated...

http://mobile.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=03534

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/31/iphone-captures-17th-century

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: cv643d on November 05, 2008, 04:26:42 PM

Whats the difference between this and the Google space exploring thing (Google earth into space something)?

Title: Re: Distant Suns
Post by: blobrana on November 05, 2008, 06:46:11 PM

They are both essentially the same. But, Distant Suns is/was supported by the  Amiga community.

www.distantsuns.com (http://www.distantsuns.com/)