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Z-Star™ - Astrology Software for the Macintosh® from A.R.T. Software P.O. Box 191 Cumberland Ctr., ME 04021 ABOUT Z-Star Z-Star 1.3.1 will calculate, display, and print an astrological chart for anywhere on Earth between 65° north and south latitudes, for any date and time between 1800 and 2200 AD. You can choose from nine house systems, two display styles, and have full control over aspects. Popup windows provide detailed information on every cusp, planet, and aspect throughout the chart. Professional quality charts print at your printer's highest resolution for sharp output. It is an extremely friendly program, fast, simple, and easy to use, yet powerful and comprehensive. You can use Z-Star to cast charts not only for births, but for any event at any time and place within the limits of the program, including solar returns and lunar or planetary returns. Full instructions for Return charts are included with the manual you receive when you purchase Z-Star. PURCHASE If you like what you see, Z-Star can be yours for the introductory price of $60, plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Maine residents must add 6% sales tax, $3.60. There is an order form both at the end of this file and as a separate file included in the Z-StarDemo package. To purchase Z-Star version 1.3.1, send your address together with check or money order in U.S. funds to the address above. We will mail you an 800K disk with Z-Star 1.3.1 together with a thorough and complete manual explaining all of the features of Z-Star in detail. Please allow two to four weeks for delivery. On the GEnie network, E-Mail may be addressed to A.R.T.SOFT. A.R.T. Software is using this method of distribution to keep the price of Z-Star down to an absolute minimum, and to insure that when you purchase Z-Star you know what you're getting. Comparable software sells for a minimum of $100 - $200. Traditional commercial distribution would force our price higher. DISTRIBUTION Z-Star and Z-StarDemo are NOT public domain. They are copyrighted software and all rights are reserved. Z-Star, Z-StarDemo, and this documentation are copyright ©1991 by A.R.T. Software. Z-Star and Z-StarDemo were developed using Think C 4.0 and certain portions are copyrighted by Symantec Corporation. Z-Star is a trademark of A.R.T. Software. Apple, Macintosh, LaserWriter, and ImageWriter are registered trademarks, and MultiFinder is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Z-Star may not be sold or distributed in any form at any time without the express written permission of A.R.T. Software. Once you have purchased Z-Star, you may make copies of Z-Star for your own personal and individual use. You may not give these copies away to anyone for any purpose. You may not copy Z-Star for any other purpose or distribute it in any manner without prior written consent of A.R.T. Software. The Z-StarDemo package may be distributed freely over non-commercial channels. Individuals may copy and share the Z-StarDemo package without notice to A.R.T. Software as long as it is done for free. Specific permission is granted to local and national bulletin boards which charge a reasonable fee for on-line time to charge for the time required to download the Z-StarDemo package. In addition, user groups may distribute the Z-StarDemo package on their regular (or irregular for that matter) disks, or as part of their mail-out service, without notice to A.R.T. Software. If there is a fee for such a disk, it must be the regular fee charged by the user group. No special fee may be charged for the Z-StarDemo package. Z-StarDemo may be obtained directly from A.R.T. Software at the address below. Include $3.00 to cover shipping and handling. With those exceptions, you may not sell or distribute for profit of any kind, barter, exchange, or otherwise, copies of the Z-StarDemo package or any of its contents without prior written consent of A.R.T. Software. Commercial collectors and re-sellers of public domain, shareware, and demo-ware will be granted permission to include the Z-StarDemo package on their disks, if they ask. We would like you to distribute our product commercially, but we'd like to know who is distributing it. Please contact A.R.T. Software at the address below. We’d be happy to make arrangements. We would make the same request of user groups which sell vast collections of public domain, shareware, and demo-ware. For example, the Boston Computer Society CD-ROM, the NYMUG CD-ROM, and similar collections sold as a single, massive unit. Please contact A.R.T. Software for permission to distribute the Z-StarDemo package in this fashion. We’d be happy to make arrangements. In whatever form it is distributed, Z-StarDemo must be distributed as a complete package. No changes of any kind to any of the files contained in the package are permitted prior to distribution. It must be distributed complete and whole, including this documentation. The files contained within the Z-StarDemo package are: Z-StarDemo - a demo version of Z-Star Z-StarDemo Read Me - this text file Z-Star Charts - a folder with sample charts: Carol Burnett - a Z-StarDemo document Carl Jung - a Z-StarDemo document Henry Kissinger - a Z-StarDemo document Theodore Roosevelt - a Z-StarDemo document Z-Star Order Form - a text file order form Z-StarDemo is FREE, so you have an opportunity to try before you buy. Z-Star is sold AS IS. A.R.T. Software makes no warranties, either expressed or implied and assumes no liability for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind. Nor do we guarantee that this software will work on every Macintosh in every situation. Responsibility for testing this software for compatibility with your system rests with you. The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted in some states. The above exclusion may not apply to you. We may be contacted at: A.R.T. Software P.O. Box 191 Cumberland Center, ME 04021 ABOUT Z-Star™ AND Z-StarDemo Z-Star and Z-StarDemo are black and white programs. Color is not used or supported. They should run from an unlocked disk. They do anything a typical Mac program does, including creating, opening, printing, closing, and saving files, zooming, scrolling, and resizing windows, etc. You can open up to five windows at a time. Cut, copy, paste, or undo are only supported for desk accessories. Within Z-Star there is nothing to cut, copy, or paste. Z-Star requires system 4.2 or later and the 128K ROMs. It has hierarchical menus and other features which are not supported in earlier systems. Z-Star is compatible with system 7. It runs well under MultiFinder. Other programs can work in the background behind Z-Star. Z-Star operates very much in the usual fashion, and you shouldn’t be able to do any damage to anything by playing around with it. Z-Star has been tested on machines from a Mac Plus to a Mac IIfx with no problems. But everyone is a little different and we must allow for the fact that you may come up with some strange combination of options or inits that somehow causes a problem. If you do, please let us know what it is. Z-Star expects to have 560K of memory within which to run. The program itself occupies about 200K, and each chart requires about 65K. The allotted memory gives it a little elbow room within which to do its work. Z-StarDemo has been set to require the same amount of memory so that it will mimic the memory requirements of Z-Star. Although Z-StarDemo is a substantially smaller program, it is strongly recommended that you do NOT reduce the memory allotted. Z-StarDemo is a fully functional version of Z-Star v1.3.1 with just one limitation. You cannot create a new chart. When you choose New in the File menu, or Re-Enter Data in the Edit menu, you will get an informational dialog telling you how to obtain Z-Star 1.3.1. With that one exception, Z-StarDemo works exactly like Z-Star v1.3.1, including saving, opening, closing, and printing files. There are no other limitations. The fully functional version of Z-Star requires about 30 seconds to calculate a chart on a Mac+, substantially less on the Mac II (about one second on an fx). Included in this package is a folder with sample charts. You can use Z-StarDemo to open these charts. Run Z-StarDemo and use the Open command in the file menu to open the charts in the sample folder. Or just double-click on the chart icons inside the Z-Star Charts folder. Once you have them opened, you can manipulate them just as you would with Z-Star except you cannot alter the data from which they are calculated. You can change house systems, display aspects, print them, or save the alterations into new files. In fact we encourage you to put Z-StarDemo through its paces. Try it before you buy. When you purchase Z-Star it will come with a printed manual. It is a powerful and complex program. All the same, Z-Star is an extremely friendly program. You should be able to explore its power with Z-StarDemo with only a little help. We assume you are familiar with how to operate a Macintosh computer in general. USING Z-StarDemo To run Z-StarDemo, simply double-click the icon. Use the Open option in the File menu to open the sample charts in the Z-Star Charts folder. You can have up to five open charts. There are many options in Z-Star over which you have complete control. Look in the various menus to find out what they are. Each window has its own set of options, or preferences (like what house system to use). To change any particular option, just make the change in a menu. That change is made for that window and saved when the file is saved. No other window will change. Each chart is fully independent. When you reopen the file, it is exactly as you left it. In the Houses menu you can choose the current house system, and how to display houses. When you make a selection the active window will be updated to reflect the change. House systems supported are: Campanus, Koch, Placidus, Equal House, Meridian, Morinus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, and Topocentric. In the Aspects menu you select which aspects to display, which planets have selected aspects displayed, which planets have all aspects displayed, the orb for each aspect, and the type of line to draw for each aspect. To display an aspect, make sure both planets are turned on (use the Which Planets option) and the aspect itself is turned on (use the Which Aspects option or select the aspect from the menu). You can set the orbs for the aspects in the Set Orbs dialog. Aspects available are: conjunction, semi-sextile, sextile, square, trine, inconjunct or quincunx, opposition, semi-square, quintile, and sesquare. In the Prefs menu, use the Data Prefs option to format date, time, coordinate and angular data (items like how the month will be displayed, or whether angles will be rounded to the nearest degree or minute). Each possibility leads to a dialog box with all the choices, and a sample of the format style you've selected. Global preferences exist independently of any window that is open. Preferences include every display option in Z-Star, such as house system, what aspects are displayed, what orbs are used, etc. The global preferences are used to create new windows (which Z-StarDemo does not do). You can set the global preferences by making changes when no window is open, or by using the Set Global Prefs option in the Prefs menu (which changes the global prefs to match the current window). You can save your preferences with the Save Prefs command. The next time you start Z-StarDemo the global preferences will match your choices. You can set any window to match the global preferences at any time with the Set Window Prefs option in the prefs menu. The planets are displayed in their houses, accurate to the nearest minute or to the nearest degree, whichever you choose in the angle format dialog. You can learn how many and which planets are in various principles and elements, like fire signs or angular houses. More information is available through popup windows. Click on the symbols for planets and the cusp signs in the chart. In the lower left corner of the Z-Star document is a grid detailing aspects. Click on any planet symbol around the grid, or on any square in the grid for more information. Make some display changes to the sample files and save them as new files. Print them on your printer to see the final result on paper. If you have several charts open, you can choose Print All to print them all at once. If you have an ImageWriter, use the Page Setup dialog to select Tall Adjusted and Best printing for sharpest results. On a LaserWriter, use Text Smoothing. Have fun, and explore. This brief help file merely touches upon the power of Z-Star. If you are interested in astrology, you'll like Z-Star. We are confident there is no better software on the market for calculating astrology charts. ____________________________________________________________ Z-Star™ Astrology Software for the Macintosh® ORDER FORM (please print or type) Date: _________________ Name: _____________________________________________________ Street: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Town: ____________________________ State ______ Zip _______ Country: _____________________________________________________ No. of copies ______ x $60.00 ________ ME residents 6% sales tax ($3.60/copy) ________ Shipping & handling (U.S. & Canada) 3.00 Total ________ (Contact A.R.T. Software for prices on shipping outside U.S. & Canada) ____________________________________________________________ Send check drawn on U.S. bank or international money order in U.S. funds. Mail completed order form & payment to: A.R.T. Software P.O. Box 191 Cumberland Ctr., ME 04021-0191 We will send you the latest version of Z-Star and documentation. Price subject to change without notice. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery. Thank you for your order.