Users can permanently customize the astrology program by running
the program distributed with it called CUSTOM95.COM.  Entering
your favorite options at this program's screens and then saving
your changes to file will store them in a file called CUSTOM.AST.
The ASTROL95 program reads this file upon loading and customizes
itself in accordance with the user's wishes.  The desired options
that are in effect can be viewed at ASTROL95's Custom Set-Up
screen.  If the CUSTOM.AST file is not present, or a particular
option was not customized, the program default will display.

CUSTOM95.COM can also be used to permanently save your personal
registration code so that you do not have to retype it at the
program registration screen at the start of each session.  This
is done by running CUSTOM95.COM in the directory in which you
will be running ASTROL95 and entering your registration code once
at the CUSTOM95 screen.  At the Program Registration screen of
ASTROL95 you will then be able to automatically retrieve your
registration code by pressing the F1 key at the registration code
prompt.

For users who want to deinstall the astrology program from their
hard disk, the CUSTOM95.COM program provides a utility in its
Supplementary Menu that will delete the special registration code
directory.

You can change the initial chart display mode from the default
tabular format to graphic chartwheel format by answering Y to the
first question at the Custom Set-Up screen.  Then when you next
review or calculate a chart the results will display in the new
mode.  Release 9.5 adds selections to redisplay a chart in either
mode to the Calculation Options Menu and Saved Chart Options Menu.

The graphic chartwheel option and U.S. and world maps require
the user's PC to have a color graphics card.  A utility that
enables a Hercules monographics card to correctly display B&W CGA
graphics by simulating a CGA is available.

Unregistered users can view their first saved chart in graphics
format, but because this feature is original and required
considerable work to develop, all other charts can be displayed
in graphics format only by users who send in the fee to receive a
registration code.

You can print a hardcopy of the graphics chartwheel by loading
the DOS external command file GRAPHICS.COM before running the
astrology program and pressing Shift-PrintScreen while the
chartwheel is on the screen.  This worked fine with an IBM
Proprinter, but an Epson LQ1000 produced an elongated image
(perhaps because the monitor was an EGA rather than a CGA).  The
distribution diskette sent to registered users includes a number
of public domain alternatives to GRAPHICS.COM.

RUN CUSTOM95.COM TO PERMANENTLY SELECT THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS
The default house system is the Placidus house system long known
in the English-speaking world from Raphael's Ephemeris and
Raphael's Tables of Houses.  Placidus houses utilize a complicated
time-based system of house division.

Customers have requested the ability to select the following
alternate house systems.

The Koch house system is a time-based system very similar to the
Placidus house system.  Also known as the Birthplace system, it
was first published by Dr. Walter Koch in 1971.

The Equal House System - Western Style assigns each house thirty
degrees starting from the Ascendant.

The Equal House System - Eastern Style assigns each house one
zodiacal sign starting from the Ascendant or rising sign.  Planets
fall within a house if they fall within its zodiacal sign.

The Campanus house system is a space-based system which derives
its houses by trisecting the quadrants formed by the intersection
of the horizon and meridian with the great circle known as the
prime vertical.

The CUSTOM95.COM program gives you the option of having your
charts calculated according to the Sidereal zodiac instead of the
default Tropical zodiac.  The Sidereal zodiac is tied to the
constellations while the Tropical zodiac is tied to the ecliptic-
equator nodal points.  Precession of the equator causes the nodal
points and Tropical zodiac to move relative to the constellations
at the rate of 1.4 degrees per century.

The program will accept a 'delta' factor of up to 90 degrees in
either direction from the standard Western sidereal zodiac.  The
CUSTOM95.COM program prompts the user to enter this factor if the
user selects the sidereal zodiac.

CUSTOM95.COM allows the user to customize whether the program
includes the Ascendant and Midheaven in aspects, midpoints, chart
comparisons, and transits.  The program default is to include them.
The default is not to include the moon's nodes, but the program
can be customized to include them as well as to display them.  The
program can be customized to display the Part of Fortune.

The program can be customized to print tabular format charts to
an ASCII format file on disk instead of to the printer, in which
case the prompt will change from Print Hardcopy (Y/N) to Print to
ASCII File (Y/N).

The planet that the transits list starts from can be customized to
be any planet from the sun to Pluto.  The duration of the list
period can be from one to twelve months, except that if the
transiting planets include the moon then the maximum duration is
one month and if Venus then the maximum duration is six months.

At the Supplementary Menu of CUSTOM95 there is an option to change
the text and background colors of the astrology program's text
screens from the default yellow and black.  A couple of customers
who have color graphics cards but monochrome monitors have told me
that the program's text screens appeared fuzzy.  Changing the text
color to white should solve this problem.

The continuous form feed option at the Supplementary Menu asks 
whether the user wants continuous form feed printing or wants print
pauses in which to change paper.