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- W E L C O M E T O E A R T H W A T C H !
-
- The EARTHWATCH 3.5 program will graphically display for you in color
- the majestic march through time of the earth-moon system showing the 24
- hour night/day cycle due to the earth's rotation, the monthly phases of
- the moon, and the earth's annual trip around the sun, with the passing
- of the four seasons.
-
- Two separate programs are included: EWC (CGA graphics), and EWV
- (VGA graphics).
-
- A map of the world (Mercator projection) will slowly scroll eastward
- across the screen as the continents in turn move daily from pre-dawn
- darkness through sunrise and daylight, then through sunset back to night.
- Choose from three map types: elevation, natural, or national boundaries.
-
- Watch the shape of the daylight zone change almost imperceptably from
- day to day as the seasons progress, with the days shorter in winter and
- longer in summer for the Northern Hemisphere and vice-versa in the
- Southern Hemisphere.
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- Sunrise and sunset times along with percentage of daylight for your
- city or anywhere you designate are calculated and displayed for the
- present date or a date that you choose. The phase and position of
- the moon will also be displayed numerically and graphically.
-
- The VGA version allows the tracking and display of latitude and
- longitude coordinates and major cities as you move a mouse-driven
- cursor over the map display. This version also offers the option
- of selecting between two map types, elevation and natural.
-
- A special Almanac screen can be called up to display additional
- information such as a comparison of sunrise & sunset times with those
- of the previous day, the number of days remaining until the beginning
- of the next season (solstices & equinoxes), and more.
-
- Follow the sun's progress along its annual trek around the Analemma,
- the figure 8 pattern found frequently on globes that shows the sun's
- declination (apparent north-south excursions in the sky) and the
- "equation of time."
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- See at a glance the local time anywhere on the populated earth and
- observe whether that location is experiencing night, day, dawn, dusk,
- or anywhere between.
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- Up to ten locations around the world may be highlighted on the display
- to help you monitor the status of various cities, etc.
-
- All of this may be done accurately and in real time while it is
- actually happening! Or, if you wish, reset the date and/or time to monitor
- the earth in the past or future.
-
- Replace your ordinary calendar or menu graphic program with EARTHWATCH
- when your PC is in "standby" mode for an informative and fascinating
- earth monitoring clock.
-
- The EARTHWATCH program will run on any IBM compatible PC equipped with
- CGA or VGA graphics support. A Microsoft compatible mouse is required
- to use the latitude/longitude tracking & display option.
-
- It is strongly recommended thet EARTHWATCH be run from a fixed (hard)
- disk, particularly EWV, to aviod some fairly long waiting periods when
- accessing images. Also, EWV builds temporary bit-map image files requiring
- 310K bytes of free disk space.
-
- EARTHWATCH consists of a total of 34 files, 28 of which are required for
- the VGA version and 9 for the CGA (3 are shared by both). They may all
- be copied onto one directory on your fixed disk, from which either program
- may be run, or split into two separate directories.
-
- The VGA files are:
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- BRUN45.EXE EWV35.EXE MAP1.INT MAP3.GRN
- COLKEY.EXE GAZ35.DAT MAP1.RED MAP3.INT
- COPYM1.BAT HELPSC.EXE MAP2.BLU MAP3.RED
- COPYM2.BAT HELPV35.DAT MAP2.GRN MSLOOKUP.DAT
- COPYM3.BAT HLITEV35.DAT MAP2.INT README.DOC
- EWV.BAT MAP1.BLU MAP2.RED V35TZDET.DAT
- EWV35.DAT MAP1.GRN MAP3.BLU V35TZDR.DAT
-
- The CGA files are:
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- BRUN45.EXE EWC35.EXE HELPC35.DAT MAPC35.DAT
- EWC.BAT GAZ35.DAT HLITEC35.DAT README.DOC
- EWC35.DAT
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- To run, change to the directory chosen and type:
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- EWC (followed by ENTER key) to run the CGA version.
- EWV (followed by ENTER key) to run the VGA version.
-
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- Copyright 1994 -- ELANWARE, INC. Not to be used for commercial purposes
- without permission. You are granted permission and are encouraged to copy
- and share this program free of charge with others. If you enjoy using
- EARTHWATCH, please send a payment of $25 to:
-
- ELANWARE, INC.
- 134 NORMANDY DR.
- BRUNSWICK, OHIO 44212
-
- In return you will be registered for future upgrades and sent a detailed
- userguide for EARTHWATCH.
-
- Enjoy EARTHWATCH!
-
- Thank you.
- Larry Nagy
-
-
-
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