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Celestia - Default branch

Section: Unix

Added: Tue, May 1st 2001 17:30 PDT (7 years, 0 months ago)

Updated: Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 23:28 PDT (1 month, 14 days ago)

About:
Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Author:
Chris Laurel <claurel __at__ www __dot__ shatters __dot__ net> [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.5.0.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/150-feature-summary.html
OS X package:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-osx-1.5.0.dmg

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 4 - Beta
[Environment] MacOS X :: Cocoa, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome
[Intended Audience] End Users/Desktop
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, POSIX
[Programming Language] C++, Lua
[Topic] Education, Games/Entertainment :: Simulation, Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Chris Laurel (Owner)

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Default 1.5.0 03-Apr-2008 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Comments

[»] Wow
by Nurikabe - Sep 12th 2003 06:02:53

Just.. Wow.

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[»] Full screen ?
by FastViper - Dec 27th 2001 12:24:02

The simulator is great!
Thank you very much for this project!

BTW: I don't know howto run Celestia in full screen mode.. (nVidia drivers)

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FastViper

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[»] Nice app.
by Andy MacKenzie - Jun 3rd 2001 00:06:20

Very nice proggie. Though Earth doesn't seem to
have any texture on it. Other than that it's
quite nice!

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[»] Re: Nice app.
by Allan Noordvyk - Jun 3rd 2001 10:49:34

> Very nice proggie. Though Earth doesn't
> seem to
> have any texture on it. Other than
> that it's
> quite nice!
Try reducing the size of your window. There seems to be a bug with the Earth surface map when enlarging the window beyond the default size.

(PS: I'll handly reporting this bug.)

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-- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan

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