Dear Bill

thanks for the fast answer. In the meantime I found out via other
help, that something changed the home-planet setting. Switching back
from Mars to Earth, solved the problem concerning finding Mars.

However, the bitmap is still a puzzle. I see only a white disk of
Mars (with libration). But I see the radiobuttons, but nothing
changes if I switch.

If I look in the Extras-Install to Harddisk, the selection window is
empty. Quite wierd.

I used this bitmap feature very often during Jupiter an Saturn season
this winter and it always worked.

I guess I have to reinstall Guide from scratch.

On my laptop it just works fine with the bitmaps.

Regards, Josch

>
> Josch, I'd wager that your 'home planet' is currently set to be
> Mars. At one time, I had Guide rigged up so that all planets were
> listed in the 'go to planet' dialog, including the home planet. If
> you clicked on that, you wound up looking at the nadir (that is,
> "normally", if you want to look at the Earth, you'd look straight
> down.) This made sense of a sort, but it confused some people.
> So I just dropped the home planet from the "go to planet" list.
>
> The missing bitmaps are another puzzle. When you click on a

planet,

> then for "display... options", does it give any radio buttons for

the

> various bitmaps? Perhaps something clobbered your settings so they
> are all shown as shaded spheres or outlined shapes?
>
> Also, if you've not checked "Planet features (16 MBytes)" in

the

> Extras... Install to Hard Drive menu, _and_ the Guide CD isn't in

the

> drive, Guide won't be able to find the bitmaps anywhere. So it

will

> give up and drop back to shaded spheres.
>
>
> -- Bill