(What's the difference between 32-Bit and 64-Bit and how do I tell what I have?)
| Software | Windows 7 - 64 Bit | 64 Bit Vista | 32 Bit Vista | Windows XP | Windows 98se |
| ACS Stand Alone Atlas | Requires a password plus CD ?? or later, or downloading from web. | Requires a password plus CD ?? or later, or downloading from web. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Astro Tides | Yes – CD 200E or greater | Yes? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Astrolabe Font 1 | Yes. Registered users download update here | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Astrolabe Report System | Yes* | Yes - CD 500F or greater | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
| Cosmic Ray Screensaver | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Data Collections | Yes - CD 500G or greater | Yes - CD 500G or greater | Yes - CD 500G or greater | Yes | Yes |
| Old MS-DOS Programs | No - (geeks, try DOSBox) | No - (geeks, try DOSBox) | No - (geeks, try DOSBox) | No - (geeks, try DOSBox) | Yes |
| Jigsaw 1 | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Jigsaw 2 | No | No | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
| Jigsaw 2.2 | Yes - CD 150G or greater | Yes - CD 150G or greater | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nova Chartwheels | Yes* | Yes - CD 500F or greater | Yes * | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 2 Standard | No | No | Yes?* | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 3 | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 4 | No | No | ?* - Font Problem (2) | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 5 | No | No | Yes * | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 5.1 | No | No | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire 6 Deluxe | Yes * | Yes* | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Fire Gold (v. 7.0) | Yes, see footnote (3) | Yes, see footnote (3) | Yes | Yes | No? |
| Solar Fire Gold (v. 7.3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Solar Fire Gold (V8) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Solar Maps 1 | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Solar Maps 3 | Yes (Solar Maps CD 200C or greater) | Yes (Solar Maps CD 200C or greater) | Yes* | Yes | No |
| Zone Trekker | ? | Yes* | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
* With our older installation CDs (those numbered lower than 500G) these programs may require administrator access to function properly. This is not a problem on our latest CD's 500G or greater. After you install the program, if it won't run or you see strange error messages, try this (a procedure which will enable you to run many older programs on the latest Windows versions):
Setting Admin Access: Right-click the program's icon on the desktop, select Properties, click on the Compatibility tab and put a check mark where it says Run this program as an administrator. All the other compatibility options can remain turned off.
If the program's Help menu doesn't work, then get this help menu fix from Microsoft.
? - Not tested or results not yet conclusive. Contact us with your results.
2 - Solar Fire 4 can have a problem installing the astro glyph fonts on Vista. If Solar Fire 4's glyphs aren't working properly, try manually installing the fonts after the main program is installed. To do so, open My Computer, click on the icon for the CD drive, then on the folder called 05-Solar Fire 4, and then on the folder labeled Disk 3. In here, right-click on each of the following files and select Install: Etastro.ttf, etsans.fon, etastrob.ttf. Also see the * paragraph above.
3 - If the Solar Fire install program asks you to check for program updates during the installation you must say no, or the program will not install properly. Only early versions of the Solar Fire 7.0 CD will ask to check for updates while installing, so you may not see this message. Once the program is installed and running successfully you can then check for updates with no problems.
What's the difference between 32-Bit and 64-Bit and how do I tell what I have?
