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SkyORB VR

SkyORB VR - 1.8.2

visual space simulation with ephemeris

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Current Version: 1.8.2
Release Date: 2008-09-06
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 727
Downloads (all versions): 12,530

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Product Description:

SkyORB is a 3D planetarium, star gazing and epheremis, based from V3X.net engine. It features a modern 3D interface, search engine, a large catalog of stars, planets, moons and updatable comets and asteroids database, and let you choose see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any planet from the solar system.

What's new in this version:

HDR configuration. Graphical compass in local view. Improvements in the OpenGL renderer.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

  • G4, G5 or Intel processor
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
  • GeForce4 MX with 64 MB of VRAM minimum (Radeon 9800 or GeForce 6 recommended)

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SkyORB VR CommentaryIt does not work on 10.4.11 - Version: 1.8.0, 2/28/2008 11:56AM PST

mikelet
It fails to load on a G5 Quad with 10.4.11.
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SkyORB VR Commentarynot there yet - Version: 1.5.4-2, 9/26/2005 11:51AM PST

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cravencondor
it looks like this very attractive program might do something good but

no read me file (as referenced in a previous review)
help function does not work at all

strange graphics anomalies , for example if you try to make the window larger the amoubt of screen displayed gets smaller

the control boxes sometimes require a click 1/2 inch below the box

tried to increase the window to a larger legal size and got a black screen with nothing visable

without a help of some sort many of the functions are unusable since the interface is very strange and non intuitive
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SkyORB VR Developer NoteNew edition 2005 - Version: 1.5, 4/14/2005 02:33PM PST

execom_rt
This new MacOS X edition should fixes the problems found in the 2003 edition like : full screen (mouse problems), installation problems (preferences folder) and others issues (CPU usage, appearance of the icon when reduced into the dock).

A Geforce4MX is minimum, but it really shines on all latest ATI and nVidia video cards (Radeon 9800 / Geforce).
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