Customer Reviews

Sundial: The Hawaii Collection Upgrade

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I have had Sundial Hawaii on my desktop for the past year or so. Its breathtaking pictures always bring a smile to my face, as they remind me of my wonderful past vacations to the Islands. Whenever I am in the mood to escape and wish I could be back in the warm sun of Honolulu's Waikiki Beach, all I have to do is take a look at my computer monitor and daydream of being there. It's wonderful to watch people walking along the beach or boats going out to sea. I especially love how the scene changes with the time of day, so each day I have the chance to watch a Hawaiian sunset. I've even had friends ask me how they can get their own copy.

The only problem with Sundial is that it can be very tempermental at times - and by that I mean that it needs a lot of memory allocated to it to work well or the application will quit on you. Also a good quality, high resolution monitor is ideal for the best picture---I have a Mac and its graphics work excellently with Sundial.

In regards to comments made earlier by Ms. Hendricks ("Wordmama") that Sundial does not work if you connect via dial-up modem, that is absolutely NOT true!! For several years, I have used this software on computers with via dial-up, and the software works just fine (both when I'm connected & not connected on-line). Later, when I started using broadband, the software continued to work fine.

I am currently selling my copy because this software is not supported on my Mac laptop with the Intel chip (which no longer runs "Classic OS 9" apps), nor on my Windows XP laptop. :-( Otherwise, I would have rated this a 5 star application, and I miss running it on my computers.

This sounds like a great idea, but it's not workable if you connect via a dial-up modem. The scenes don't change unless you're online, see. So thanks for a great idea, but maybe I'll keep looking.