| UBC Physics & Astronomy
Henn 312 Astronomy Undergrad Lab software |
The user account has a desktop with icons for the following programs used by the 100 level courses. Note tht most of these programs were MS-Windows or MS-DOS programs; WINE was used to provide a Window environment; DOSEMU could run most of the dos-based programs; "Dance of the Planets" needed to be run with DOSBox. It is perhaps telling, the Dosbox's author claims this program is mainly for running Dos games !! GalaxyCollider was a Windows executable that would NOT run properly... Rob Scharein provided a Linux executable.
| Icon name | Launcher Command |
| Orbits | xdosemu -E orbit.bat |
| SkyGlobe | xdosemu -E skyglobe.bat |
| Hubble | /home/user/.wine/c/win16apps/astro/Hubble/HUBBLE.BAT |
| Mercury | /home/user/.wine/drive_c/win16apps/astro/Mercury/MERCURY.BAT |
| Spectra | /home/user/.wine/c/win16apps/astro/Spectra/SPECTRA.BAT |
| CLU-24 | xdosemu -E ts24.bat |
| EZC | xdosemu -E ezc.bat |
| BinStar | xdosemu -E binstar.bat |
| Dance | /home/user/dance-dosbox.bat |
| ImageLab | xdosemu -E imagelab.bat |
| GalaxyCollider | /usr/local/bin/GalaxyCollider |
The ASTR 405 course use the following programs installed in /usr/local
| Gerry Grieve | 2006-01-19 |