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1 Peter van Grijfland
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Apr 11, 2005
10:38 pm
Welcome, This is the Yahoo! Message Board for Dance of the Planet community. No other program gives you a better sense of the utterly graceful chaos of our...
2 Peter van Grijfland
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Apr 12, 2005
7:16 pm
All programs compiled with Borland Pascal 7 that use the system unit Crt (almost all programs do that) abort with the error message "Runtime Error 200" on all...
3 Peter van Grijfland
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Apr 12, 2005
7:24 pm
DANCE OF THE PLANETS is a true orbital simulator and requires accurate initialization data. These are provided in the form of orbital elements. Each element...
4 Pieter Burggraaf
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Apr 15, 2005
1:57 am
I was a previous owner of this SW and loved it, but it fell to the side as my computers evolved. How do I get it again? It is still DOS, right? If I have to...
5 nfoldager Send Email Apr 16, 2005
11:33 am
Great idea, this newsgroup! I used to be a heavy user of DOP, but have not used for several years as my computers developed. I several times emailed the...
6 dance_of_the_planets@... Send Email Apr 16, 2005
6:44 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the dance_of_the_planets group. File :...
7 Peter van Grijfland
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Apr 16, 2005
6:52 pm
In the file directory you can find the "Danpatch.exe" file. Run this file and then read the included txt files. At the end of the "Readme.txt" file you see the...
8 Peter van Grijfland
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Apr 16, 2005
7:12 pm
First of all you must run the RTE 200 patch. The only problem with your Win XP computer (what can happen) is your Video-card. The RTE 200 patch is for the...
9 sternsplitter2002
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Apr 25, 2005
9:00 pm
Hello After transfering my Dance of the Planets programs from my old computer to a new Pentium 4, 3 GHz, Windows XP system, Dance version 2.50 seems to work...
11 Pieter Burggraaf
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May 10, 2005
11:23 pm
Does anyone have the Dance of the Planets printed manual in electronic format, like a .doc file or PDF? If so, perhaps it would be useful to put it in the...
12 jimserac Send Email Jun 5, 2005
6:13 pm
Hi, I've done the research and nobody seems to have anything approaching Dance of the Planets functions with the exception of Celestia which I already have. 1....
13 Peter van Grijfland
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Jun 11, 2005
9:19 am
Hi Jim, You can get DOP here: http://www.arcscience.com/dance.htm Yes it will run under XP (Read the massages on this group !) Please read the subject 9 first...
14 James Pannozzi
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Jun 13, 2005
4:11 pm
Peter, many thanks. Does anyone know who wrote it?? An astronomer?? Jim ... http://us.click.yahoo.com/EA3HyD/3MnJAA/79vVAA/e_XolB/TM ... ...
15 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
12:52 pm
Hi, I have WinXP SP2 Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Chaintech GeForce FX 5700 VGA card. I used DOP many years ago and had to look through the whole house to find te...
16 sternsplitter2002
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Jun 16, 2005
5:00 pm
Niels, The "v2.5 Sampler" is not a part of the "Version 2.50". It is a stand-alone program that has been distributed for promotional purposes. You need not to...
17 James Pannozzi
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Jun 16, 2005
7:42 pm
Had a copy of the sampler years ago but its lost. Would love to see a copy again. Jim ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
18 Peter van Grijfland
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Jun 16, 2005
8:13 pm
Hi Jim, ... I can tell you this: It was not one person who wrote D.o.the Pl. It was a team and one of them was: Thomas Ligon, now President of ARC Science ARC...
19 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
8:20 pm
... Naaaa, -- I don't believe that one. I would believe he used Pascal. Best regards, Niels Foldager...
20 Peter van Grijfland
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Jun 16, 2005
8:58 pm
Hi Niels, Ok, ok, Tom Ligon, wrote me ..he was programming it in DOS, but he means I did it in ...Borland Turbo Pascal. :-) Peter van Grijfland ... From: "N....
21 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
9:21 pm
... I can mail them to you. It's just 286 kb. OK? Best regards, Niels...
22 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
9:51 pm
... But how about license and that kind of stuff? Does he seek some able one to do the programming? There is this astro programming newsgroup. We could ask for...
23 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
9:53 pm
... This is just to bring your attention to a new newsgroup dealing with the good ancient Dance of The Planets solar system simulation software. I thought...
24 N. Foldager
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Jun 16, 2005
10:06 pm
... Yes. That's one of the things that makes me so nostalgic running DOP: The typography is very "Turbo Pascalic". Best regards, Niels...
25 Peter van Grijfland
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Jun 16, 2005
10:23 pm
Hi Niels, I think it is a good idea. Tom Ligon, told me: "......There are no plans to do a version 3.0 or windows version. But I would still like to see it...
26 James Pannozzi
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Jun 16, 2005
11:38 pm
Please do email it - jimserac@... Many thanks Jim ... ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up...
27 N. Foldager
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Jun 17, 2005
12:24 am
Peter van Grijfland. ... <cut> That sounds good! Niels...
28 N. Foldager
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Jun 18, 2005
11:16 am
... About 2 meters from my disk, I have a shelve with a row of folders. One of them have a label with big black letters saying "Dance of The Planets". ...
29 N. Foldager
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Jun 18, 2005
9:22 pm
Hi, I just made a succesfull installation under WinXP SP2. Here is what worked for me: 1. On the original DOP-disc copy install.exe to install_un-patched.exe...
30 James Pannozzi
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Jun 19, 2005
12:51 am
I have just placed an order with Arc for DOP and will be running it on XP as soon as I get it. Where does one get the patch? Thanks Jim Pannozzi Las Vegas ... ...
31 N. Foldager
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Jun 19, 2005
7:35 am
Hi James, ... I got it from ARC in 1999. It was contained in a self-extracting file (danpatch.exe) together with some info-files. The patch itself...
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