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diff --git a/astro/openuniverse/pkg-descr b/astro/openuniverse/pkg-descr index 6e743fc94a50..57ac36b39920 100644 --- a/astro/openuniverse/pkg-descr +++ b/astro/openuniverse/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ -ssystem is an OpenGL Solar System simulator with Sun, nine -planets, and a few major satellites. Background stars are -also included. +paraphrase of the Web page: + +This program draws the Solar System's bodies in simulated +3-dimensionality. You can view all the planets, their moons and +a few spaceships in motion, trace them, follow them, orbit them +and even control them. -WWW: http://socios.las.es/~amil/ssystem/ - http://www.wam.umd.edu/~kamelkev/ - http://plasma.gsfc.nasa.gov/Ssystem/ - http://www.skysys.org/mirrors/ssystem/ +OpenUniverse was formely known as Solar System Simulator (Ssystem). +It was initially released in 1997 with the intent of creating a +rotating display of the Earth on a mainstream PC. Ssystem version +1.0 was only aware of the planets. Version 1.2 added moons; and +1.6, more means of movement and better textures. + +The program has been renamed OpenUniverse 1.0 to underline the +concept behind its further development: openness for the whole +Universe, not just the solar system--open for anyone to use, extend +and change. + +WWW: http://openuniverse.sourceforge.net/ |