@mpiva:
OK, I overlooked the update possibility. And I understand that you're mad about Celestia. But please listen: I've done astronomy as a hobbyist for about 13 years. There's no point in switching perspective to Regulus or some extrasolar planet we know nearly nothing about. The reason is simple: Within many, many years noone will be able to GO there and do it in real, not even using robots. The surfaces of any extrasolar planet, besides the fact that all of the known ones will probably be gas giants, are totally unkonwn. Does it look like Jupiter, more like Saturn or like Uranus? Why should I want to watch such a picture when I KNOW it's wrong? This is rather infotainment than astronomy as a science.
But this is not the amiga point: Judging from the website of DA I thought it is still in development for OS4. Sad if it is no more. But you could still buy a copy for OS3.x. I'm sure Achim Stegemann would be very happy about every single user who did so. If it were enough, maybe he'd change his mind and go for OS4.
We Amiga users are a small community by now. Since MorphOS it is even more so, and the subgroup of users interested in astronomy is even smaller. So maybe you found a good program, but for a userbase thus small there's noone who would do the enormous work of porting a big astronomical program for free. As Celestia is Open Source, so a port had to be. If you were able to find anyone who did the porting, it would amaze me totally. I'm sorry to say that, but the Amiga reality has become rather sad.
I'm sure nearly everyone here in the forum could name at least five good programs that would deserve porting. Plus being much more important for our platform. I'm saying this not because I do not WANT to see a good astronomical software for free using OS4, no: I'd love to use it. But other fields are much more important. Open Office would be the first program I'd like to see ported, then a Partition Magic clone, then...
I hope you get my point.
Greetings,
Scholle
