Major update adds support for Meade Autostar, enhanced automation, multi-tier pricing. In addition, this version has enhanced capabilities for scripted automation and includes other features. It also contains several updates to Microsoft-supplied scripting and voice technology.
Customers can write scripts for their needs as well.
He observed that there is a difference between simple sequencers found in some packages and the scripts he refers to, which are real programs written in real general-purpose languages in common use. We pioneered this true automation capability with ACP 1.0 in September, 1998. The Autostar license is priced lower, reflecting the reduced external computer control features of the Autostar. If used with the Autostar, ACP requires the Autostar 1.2 firmware version, available from Meade. ACP will not operate with earlier Autostar firmware versions.