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                        ***  Version 1.00  ***


1. Printing of both text and graphics implemented. Be sure to reverse 
   background when printing graphics on paper, and turn off color if
   using a monochrome printer.

2. Chart swapping (to make two-way synastry quicker).

3. Menu items for creating, opening and editing chart #2 directly.

4. Triple and quadruple wheels.

5. Fixes: Sporadic crashes due to buggy chart saving, crashes 
   occuring while resizing window having graphical sidebar, and
   crashing after restricting all objects, are all fixed.

6. The calendar graphics display is no longer upside-down.

Known problems reported and to be addressed:

1. PostScript saving produces mirrored output in GhostView.


                        ***  Version 0.99  ***


1. Dynamic scrolling (tracking slider) in both graphics and text
   displays.

2. MLE control replaced by custom solution with keyboard scrolling.
   This solution may be somewhat faster and will also make it possible 
   to display text in different colors. Please let me know if you are
   interested, since that will provide the motivation I need.
 
3. Changes allowing for planetary orbs (used in classical astrology).
   Defaults are changed for planets and aspect settings, but unless
   you delete your .INI file, you will keep your present settings.
  
4. DrawWheel: Fixed alignment of lines and arcs.
   XChartWheel and XChartWheelRelation: Aspect lines are dotted 
   according to dynamic orb (instead of fixed aspect orbs).

5. ChartAspectRelation: Upgraded 16-bit legacy limit to INT_MAX, 
   so that also the most important inter aspects are included... 


                         ***  Fix v0.98b  ***


ChartAspect: Upgraded 16-bit legacy limit (30000) to INT_MAX, so that 
also the most important aspects are included in the aspect list... 
GetAspInf: Orb power weighed and smoothed by a sine function (less 
than half orb means more power, more than half orb means less power,
power changes very slowly at the extremes). Jyotish houses: Sign 
influence revised so that Asc and MC go as sidereal.


                         ***  Fix v0.98a  ***


Jyotish houses: Sign influence calculations now treat Ascendant and 
MC signs same as those for the 1st and 10th house respectively (i.e.,
same as if the sidereal zodiac was used). Fixed: The internal show 
seconds setting could be wrong in some cases.


                        ***  Version 0.98  ***


1. Completely revised influence calculation for objects and aspects.
   All calculations are the same throughout the program. The graphics
   sidebar summary, text summary and text influence chart use the
   same basic calculations. Pretty much everything is controlled by 
   user settings. For personalization the following settings in 
   "Calculation Settings" are considered: "Sign ruler" = Boost given 
   to sign ruler (e.g., Mars for Sun in Aries), "House ruler" = 
   as for sign but based on house placement, "Secondary ruler" = Boost 
   given to co-ruler of sign or house (e.g., Pluto for Sun in Aries) 
   as a percentage of primary boost. At its core personalization is 
   based on object settings (The Sun Sign ruler will thus usually 
   be personalized the most, followed by the Moon Sign ruler).

2. Aspect list fixed and improved. Now considers dynamic object 
   influence as part of power calculation. Geometric mean has replaced
   the old arithmetic (a zero influence object will only produce zero
   influence aspects).
   
3. The element/mode/sign summaries now take aspect influence into 
   account as well as object placement and planet personalization. A 
   boosted ruler also boosts its sign or signs. These summaries are 
   now almost identical to the text influence chart with sign 
   influences enabled (see "Chart Setting Details"). The only major 
   difference is that Ascendant and MC sign placements are included
   in the summaries if they are enabled under "Object Restrictions".
   The summaries are as earlier normalized around 100, so that values
   indicate percentage of average sign influence in the chart.
   
4. The Object list has been slightly improved and default Chiron 
   ruler changed to Virgo. No debilitate entries for mutuable planets
   with co-rulers as they are never used.

5. When using the sidereal zodiac Jyotish houses produces results 
   identical to Whole houses.

6. Fixed: Globe graphics (no criss-crossing lines).

7. Default animation interval changed to 100 ms. The setting is
   now persistent between program runs, so if you want to change
   it back to 1000 ms or any other setting, no problem.

8. The chart collection that was previously distributed with the 
   program is now available separately (See readme for more info)

 
                         ***  Fix v0.97b  ***


Graphics support for all letters in the OS/2 default code page (same
font is used as in the text charts). All aspect settings saved on 
exit. Fix for calculation errors only affecting chart buffers 2-4. A 
divide by zero bug removed. A few new sample charts (sample charts are 
now zipped separately).


                         ***  Fix v0.97a  ***


Fix for "disabled" command-line switches. This fix makes sure that
switches like "-n" (for NOW chart) don't get cancelled by chart 
buffers loaded from the INI file (automatically saved settings).

The sidereal adjustment setting no longer affects the calculations 
unless the "Sidereal Zodiac" or "Jyotish houses" menu items have been 
selected.


                        ***  Version 0.97  ***


1. Extended customization: The aspects and calculation settings 
   dialogs have been extended with user controls affecting things like 
   what aspects are included based on orb and sign, and how different 
   factors are weighed in the element mode summary.

2. The dispositor graphics display is no longer upside-down.


                         ***  Fix v0.96a  ***


This update contains a few fixes and small enhancements. 

1. The new house system introduced in version 0.96 now uses the 
   properly calculated sidereal offset used for the sidereal zodiac. 
   This ancient Indian style of equal houses can now be combined 
   with the tropical zodiac to perhaps gain the best of the two 
   worlds.

A fix relevant to the OS/2 version found in Astrolog 5.40 has 
been incorporated:

2. -YJ bug: The -YJ switch which allows changing what signs each
   planet rules, wouldn't also update a reverse table which given a 
   sign indicates which planet rules it. This would cause -YJ to have
   seemingly no effect on the sign list table, the influence chart, 
   and the dispositor graph.

A couple of small enhancements in Astrolog 5.40 for windows have been
implemented:

3. Improved glyphs: Astrolog now has higher resolution graphic glyphs
   for sign symbols and house numbers. Before, some glyphs drawn at 
   the default 200% or medium scale and up would look slightly blocky. 
   Now, with a alternate "internal font" of double sized glyphs, the 
   medium ones are smooth to the nearest pixel like the small glyphs 
   are. The glyph for the Quintile aspect has also been improved.

4. Dialog extension: The sidereal zodiac degree adjustment field in
   the Calculation Settings dialog has been fitted with a dropdown 
   making it possible to quickly select among several common systems 
   of sidereal astrology. The values in it are 0:00 for Fagan Bradley, 
   0:53 (0 degrees 53') for N.C. Lahiri, 0:59 (0 degrees 59') for 
   Krishnamurti, and 2:20 (or 2 degrees 20') for B.V. Raman.

A couple of additional changes specific to the OS/2 version:

5. The Julian day number is now displayed in the info side bar for 
   graphics charts.

6. Bugfix: The text for Lilith/South node becomes wrong if you switch
   off and on ephemeris a couple of times.


                        ***  Version 0.96  ***


1. An additional house system called Jyotish Houses. In this system
   the first house always contains the Ascendant, but the Ascendant
   is not necessarily the starting point of the first house.
2. Dwad positions similar to decan positions can be calculated and
   shown by selecting "Show Dwads" from the settings menu. 
3. Updated help file to contain OS/2 specific information. The new
   house system has the number 14. The command-line switch for
   calculating dwads is "-4".
4. All dialogs are now fully converted to Warp 4 meaning reduced
   footprints and more aesthetic looks.
5. Defaults buttons in dialogs having them are now working.
6. Additional celebrity charts.


                         ***  Fix v0.95a  ***


Changes to the name of the current chart file is now immediately
reflected in the titlebar as well as in the persistent chart buffers. 
Ephemeris display is no longer upside down. The chart collection has 
been updated. A few new charts. 


                        ***  Version 0.95  ***


1. Displays, in the titlebar, the full file name associated with the 
   currently selected buffer. 
2. Saves changes to object and aspect settings automatically. 
3. Refined chart summary. Boosts the ruler (coruler if no primary
   ruler has been assigned) of the Sun, Moon and rising signs. The 
   boost is calculated from the weights assigned to these three 
   indicators and is also dependent on the base weights assigned to 
   the boosted bodies.
4. A few ugly bugs in the new buffer system have been fixed.
5. If a house system is undefined for a chart a warning will be 
   displayed noting that the Equal House System will be used instead.


                        ***  Version 0.94  ***


1. Comparison charts
2. Easy switching between four chart buffers (in other words four
   charts can be opened simultaneously). Contents preserved between
   runs.
3. A few settings dialogs have been refreshed and a new one added for
   consistency.
4. Improved menu layout (including a new "comparison" pull-down menu)
5. More accelerators (F5 for standard chart and F10 for world map)
6. Relocation using the world map has been fixed.
7. New defaults for aspects.


                        ***  Version 0.93  ***


1. Improved birth chart summary now taking house placement into
   account and normalizing values so that 100 indicates "normal"
   distribution. All values are relative to the internal average.
   In order to compare different birth charts the value in 
   parenthesis must be multiplied with the grid value of interest.
2. Saves current chart info between runs. This includes current file
   name (if there is any). Also loads filename when opening a
   chart by double-clicking on it.
3. Minor cosmetics and plenty of additional sample charts.


                         ***  Fix v0.92b  ***

A few major and many minor fixes primarily on the graphics side. There
should no longer be any serious problems when having chart size 
independent of window. This version has also been compressed for
Warp reducing the size of the executable by some 30%.


                         ***  Fix v0.92a  ***


Big text charts no longer any problem. Saving of text to file works
immediately.


                        ***  Version 0.92  ***


Significantly improved performance on repaint including scrolling.

New functionality include:

1. Copying of select text to the clipboard.
2. OS/2 bitmap save (currently uncompressed!).
3. Standard OS/2 user profile (INI file) will eventually
   eliminate the need for a separate config file.
4. Preserving size and position of main window between runs.
5. Most menu and dialog settings should get automatically saved on
   exit (chart type, mode, calculation features, etc.). If you miss 
   something let me know!

Minor improvements and bug fixes include:

1. A couple of charts are no longer upside-down.
2. Caption (one-line text) in supported graphics charts.
3. Local time properly calculated (LT in drop-down list box).
4. Exaltation is considered in element/mode summary.

Many minor fixes as well.

                     Special note to Matrox users

Unfortunately this version also reveals bugs in the Matrox graphics 
drivers leaving incomplete ellipses no matter how you twist and turn.


                         ***  Fix v0.91a  ***


Fix v0.91a provides almost working scrollbars in text charts.


                        ***  Version 0.91  ***


This update can be passed a chart file as a command-line argument,
enabling direct opening of chart files if associated with the Astrolog 
executable. In addition original command line parsing should now work 
reasonably.

New functionality include:

1. Scribble (simple drawing using the mouse).
2. Help file opened in the System Editor via F1.
3. Astrolog for OS/2 can be associated with chart files.

Minor improvements and bug fixes include:

1. Time zone calculation working for western zones.
2. Complete command line argument parsing.
3. Improved appearance of the chart dialogs (WarpSans font).
4. Includes the Ascendent and MC as default.
5. Arrow keys can be used for scrolling.
6. Chart save uses the correct Astrolog time zone format.

And of course multiple minor bug fixes.


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