I do remember those heroic times... I even bought a CD drive just to be
able to use Guide...
I used MegaStar and Guide together for quite a long time, but nowadays its
all Guide for me.
I would not dare saying that Guide is better/easier/whatever... but I think
you can only know one program good enough to use it optimally, especially
at night in cold wheather ;-)
So when I noticed that I tried to use Guide-shortcuts in Megastar and
Megastar-commands in Guide, I decided to stay with the most intuitive, and
that was Guide for me.

But when observing with friends, I see others using Megastar and doing most
things as fast and easy, so it's definitely a personal choice.
But ther's always a little competition between the Guide-users and the
Megastar-ones. But the last point we scored where the globular clusters in
M31... Made them jalous...

Philippe,

>Here's an image of Guide's introduction to the market:
>http://www.kolumbus.fi/jimenez/g1.jpg
>
>And yes, on the previous page in the magazine there's a flashier ad
>for Megastar promising more. It sold for "only" $139 + shipping, so
>it wasn't really difficult to decide on Guide. Besides, I had just a
>few weeks earlier bought a CD drive.
>
>Jari

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