Nova for Windows revision history 1996 May 16, 1996 : First release, Dayton Hamvention May 30, 1996 : Improved Install program so that S/N without letters will still install correctly Added "UTC" or "Local" to time displayed in Views Fixed View time when Computer & Display = local Added saving for main Nova form size and placement between sessions (Tnx WB7ASR) June 5, 1996 : Fixed Utilities/Quick visibility check (Tnx W5IU) Added Extra object to end of satellite list for user- defined celestial tracking; added Config. Extra button to allow setting RA & Dec. Fixed bug in AOS/LOS of natural satellites Fixed bug in East/West longitude of user-defined Observer June 16, 1996 : Fixed bug in Satellite update (occasionally dropped satellites) Corrected EME band selection in Moon graphs Corrected Natural Sats Az/El bug Corrected visual satellite indication June 17, 1996 Connected Start Hour in Utilities/Listing/Setup (Tnx WA9AFM) June 21, 1996 Fixed north/south break button display (antenna rotator setup) Corrected colors in Europe-centered Space View maps (35K->256). Added Orbit shape display to View from Space June 23, 1996 Fixed bug in Add Satellite routine (Tnx NS2Z) Improved antenna presetting reliability Added Configure Default View to the main menu (Tnx WB7ASR) June 24, 1996 Added colored text for visible satellites in data grid Released ver 1.0a Maintenance Revision {------------------------------------------------------------------} June 27, 1996 Added stars to blend background of reduced-size Space View maps Added "Last update" date to Satellite Keps. editor. Corrected Noise Map positions of natural satellites (Tnx G0TKN) Added Update interval to Setup/General (controls speed of NfW) June 28, 1996 Added updated ground tracks (after LOS) to Radar and Sky Temp maps (Tnx WB7ASR) Corrected miles/km display (Tnx Greg Phillips) July 1, 1996 Fixed Sun display in Sky Noise screen July 3, 1996 Added free-floating Views Increased time allocated to AutoTracking Fixed South Pole map selection (Tnx W3IWI) Fixed Show Horizon in Sky Temp. map (Tnx WB7ASR) Fixed Satellite name caption in Eclipse utility (Tnx WB7ASR) Fixed error when exiting Two Satellite setup (Tnx WB7ASR) Added >1 sat's pass display to Radar Map (Tnx WB7ASR) July 6, 1996 Added Az/El data display to Quick Visibility Check July 8, 1996 Fixed error in flip-mode decision & antenna position display July 9, 1996 Improved ground track display switching when Script tracking July 11,1996 Fixed self-starting antenna preset @ program start (Tnx WB7ASR) Added Point-and-move feature to Radar screen. Click mouse on Radar screen and the antenna moves to that Az/El. (Tnx NS2Z) July 12, 1996 Added Experimental mode to Views. This allows adjustment of Keplerian elements and viewing the results (for example, seeing how changes in inclination or eccentricity affect orbit shape). July 16, 1996 Added Configure current Veiw to main menu/Views Added drivers for antenna control via Windows '95 & NT Released NfW ver 1.0b Beta for testing Released NfW/32 ver 1.0b Beta (Windows '95 and NT) for testing {------------------------------------------------------------------------------} July 20, 1996 '32 : Cleaned up Moon Graphs July 23, 1996 Improved Kep updating for huge data sets '32 : Improved Setup & Registry use July 24, 1996 Added Find and Delete buttons to Satellite Editor July 26, 1996 Fixed hourglass cursor in Individual Screen Configuration Improved junk text tolerance in AMSAT-format Keps. updating July 27, 1996 Increased speed of Utilities/Quick Visibility Increased speed in handling huge Kep data sets Attached Hints to utilities Improved printing of Moon graphs Added "memory" of Kep Element directory/filename between session August 1, 1996 Fixed antenna display and path plotting in Sky Noise map (Tnx VE3FAC) August 2, 1996 Fixed Keplerian element updating from AMSAT-format source file (Tnx WB7ASR) Improved "Clean" for AMSAT-format Keps August 19, 1996 Fixed ST-1 interface in NfW-16 (Tnx Jim Longuillo) August 20, 1996 Improved stability in Sats & Observers setup August 22, 1996 '32 : Placed autotracking in separate thread for smoother operation August 25, 1996 Fixed Alat maximum value from 9° to 90° (Tnx N9RPQ) August 27, 1996 Improved printer output (Tnx N9RPQ) Added main screen pop-up Added DEMO capability; unregistered copies do not save sessions Sept 2, 1996 Speeded up ST-1 position reading Sept 5, 1996 Fixed Auto-switch of satellites in Script tracking Improved target acquisition Fixed antenna movement when antenna goes past end stops '32 : Fixed antenna display in Radar map (Tnx WB7ASR) Retain size/position of free-floating Views (Tnx WB7ASR) Hooked up Default to Current in Listing Setup (Tnx KB5MU) Sept 6, 1996 Enabled Views to be active while Utilities are displayed Modified Quick Visibility utility Sept 7, 1996 Improved calculation-protection for crashed satellites Sept 10, 1996 Improved Listing and other tabular output to screen & printer Fixed flip-mode detection in Script tracking Improved SASI SatTracker performance '32 : Added Setup/Antenna rotator/Advanced Priority selection so user can adjust time used by AutoTracking thread Sept 11, 1996 Fixed antenna display in Radar map (Tnx WB7ASR) Sept 12, 1996 Changed buttons to tabs in Setup/Observer Sept 19, 1996 Improved procedure for adding a single satellite to database Sept 23, 1996 Fixed flaw in Satellite editor when user changed Keps manually Sept 24, 1996 '32: fixed upgrade so it properly detects late-model registra- tion IDs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 7, 1996 '32 : added auto-detection of NovaFTP and NovaGPS (not yet released); NfW32 becomes ver 1.0c Oct 17, 1996 Fixed bug in manual Kep element editing Corrected blue highlighting for visible satellites when multiple Views are displayed Oct 19, 1996 Improved tolerance for Kep element sets with extra characters after NASA 2-line data (again) Fixed Nova_CTY data file (DXCC countries) Corrected problem with disappearing maps after "no map" display Oct 26, 1996 Added ToolBar; Both 16- and 32-bit now called ver 1.0c ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 28, 1996 Added protection against multiple simultaneous instances Oct 30, 1996 Fixed individual View time setting Nov 1, 1996 Added protection against Configure View when not View exists Added Script View and Quick Visibility Check buttons to ToolBar Sped up launching of Moon Graphs Nov 6, 1996 Changed function of "Text only" ToolBar button to permit toggling between min/max columns of text Nov 20, 1996 Fixed Setup/Antenna rotator (recently broken) Nov 29, 1996 Re-Fixed Nov 20 bug. (Tnx Bruce Howes) Dec 1, 1996 Added "Satellite Selector" to the Setup/Groups menu. This permits building Groups by selecting satellites based on Eccentricity, period, AOS, etc. Changed version to 1.0d. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 10, 1996 '32 : fixed 1-hour jump in DOS time setting (Tnx WB9QPG) Dec 17, 1996 Fixed partial map problem in Rectangular Map under 256 colors (Tnx Eric Rosenberg) Added Main Menu/Setup/ToolBar/Find Toolbar Dec 27, 1996 Fixed routine for adding satellites with large catalog numbers (Tnx Eric Rosenberg) Changed Setup/Antenna rotator/Interface page to allow setting of non-standard base addresses for the parallel port; if you have trouble with previous versions' rotator settings, delete \NovaWin\Data\Rotator.DAT to restore defaults Dec 31, 1996 Improved appearance and function of ToolBar (Tnx Dave Filmer)