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Hamburg School<br />

ment allowed this AstrolDeluxe to create graphic chartwheels on any Windows-supported<br />

printer without <strong>the</strong> program having to supply and work with particular printer<br />

drivers, which was a big advance. Natal Professional and AstrolDeluxe for Windows<br />

also started providing access to <strong>the</strong> PC Atlas, produced by <strong>the</strong> company Astro Communications<br />

Services founded in San Diego by <strong>the</strong> late Neil F. Michelsen, based on<br />

research by Thomas G. Shanks. Then, for use with <strong>the</strong> AstrolDeluxe for Windows<br />

program, Halloran Software designed TrueType fonts with 130 astrological glyphs and<br />

assembled a collection of 4,100 famous charts especially for <strong>the</strong> program’s data<br />

research module, which executes 20 different types of searches.<br />

In December 1994, Halloran Software first released Astrology for Windows, a<br />

combination freeware and shareware program. Ed Perrone, moderator of <strong>the</strong> Astrology<br />

RoundTable on <strong>the</strong> GEnie online network, wrote at <strong>the</strong> time, “In terms of non-commercial<br />

Windows <strong>astrology</strong> programs (i.e., shareware and freeware), it is really <strong>the</strong><br />

only contender. I’ve only seen a couple of Windows chart-calculation programs at all,<br />

and none of <strong>the</strong>m compare to this one for ease of use, clarity of display, and o<strong>the</strong>r features.”<br />

A unique feature of this program was to externalize all of its messages and captions,<br />

with <strong>the</strong> result that volunteer translators soon made it available in 14 different<br />

languages. For a year, this program could only be downloaded from GEnie and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

online networks such as Compuserve and America Online, but in 1996, <strong>the</strong> Internet<br />

took off and Halloran Software launched its own web site from which anyone could<br />

download <strong>the</strong> latest version of Astrology for Windows and order <strong>the</strong> company’s commercial<br />

<strong>astrology</strong> software.<br />

Beginning in 1996 with version 3, Halloran and Brown integrated a report<br />

writing engine into <strong>the</strong> AstrolDeluxe for Windows calculation program, with <strong>the</strong><br />

result that after using <strong>the</strong> program to perform a natal, comparison, transits, progressions,<br />

or return chart calculation, a user with <strong>the</strong> appropriate interpretation files could<br />

easily create a customizable 30-page report. AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter gives <strong>the</strong> user<br />

about 70 commands that are like a programming language for custom-designing interpretation<br />

reports, and it comes with an easy-to-use interpretations editor. Halloran<br />

collaborated with astrologer Tony Louis in developing program features for progressions,<br />

career analysis, and return reports.<br />

In 2002, Halloran Software released version 6 of its AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter<br />

program. Version 6 runs on 32-bit versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows<br />

XP, and comes bundled with <strong>the</strong> full ACS PC Atlas and Carolyne Lacy’s Spirit Success<br />

natal interpretations.<br />

HAMBURG SCHOOL<br />

The Hamburg school is ano<strong>the</strong>r name for Uranian <strong>astrology</strong>.<br />

HANSA<br />

Hansa, asteroid 480 (<strong>the</strong> 480th asteroid to be discovered, on May 21, 1901), is<br />

approximately 64 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.3 years. This<br />

[292] THE ASTROLOGY BOOK

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