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I quickly packed to together the changes i made since the last release of planets, which are:

• automatically select a planet if "distance" is clicked, so something happens visually
• background- and gridcolors are now configurable through a new "preferences" menu item
• the size of one calculation step is also configurable in that new dialog - bigger values means it becomes less accurate.

I needed the background- and gridcolors changeable for the documentation i wrote (see below, german only, sorry). i also came up with a few more examples (sorry for the germanisms in the file names...), but removed the screenshots from that package. here we go: there are again binary builds for windows 32bit (almost untested) and for mac os x 10.4 or later (universal) available:

• Windows Binary: planets-0.2.53-bin-win32.zip (3.3 MB)
• Mac OS X Binary: planets-0.2.53-bin-mac.zip (7.5 MB)

the source:

• Source Code, .tar.gz: planets-0.2.53-src.tar.gz (0.65 MB)
• Source Code, .zip: planets-0.2.53-src.zip (0.68 MB)

and the new samples package:

• Sample Files, .zip: planets-samples-0.2.zip (0.05 MB)

the - as mentioned - german-only documentation is available as PDF file, it's not exactly a documentation of the software as you would expect it handed alongside a program, but rather a description of the purpose of the project in general, spiced with a few technical details of how the simulation works. nothing special, though - i wish days had more hours ;-)