Patch Updates for Esoteric Technologies Products

Download our progressive patches for the freshest most up-to-date software. Our software evolves with your needs. The patch update files can only be installed if you already have a valid registered copy of the program you wish to update. These are self-extracting, self-installing files; simply download them to any location on your computer, and then execute them. You may wish to keep a copy of the downloaded file so that you can re-update your program should you ever need to reinstall it in the future.

Non-Australian and non New Zealand Solar Fire customers should obtain their Solar Fire updates directly from Astrolabe, Inc. at www.alabe.com

Solar Fire

Solar Fire v9.0.30 – 31st August 2023 – updates Solar Fire v9.0.07 and upwards only
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is version v9.07 or higher.

Solar Fire v9.0.29 – 13th November 2019 – updates Solar Fire v9.0.07 and upwards only (includes updates for ALL asteroids – a large update)
Solar Fire v9.0.29 – 13th November 2019 – updates Solar Fire v9.0.07 and upwards only (includes updates for Core asteroids only -a smaller update)
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is version v9.07 or higher

Solar Fire v8.1.5 – 18th Jan 2014 – updates Solar Fire v8.0 only (1.6 MB)
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is version v8.0 or higher.

Solar Fire Gold v7.3.1 – 15th Apr 2010 – updates Solar Fire Gold v7.3.0 only (2.2 MB)
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v7.3.0 or higher. For previous versions of Solar Fire Gold v7.1 and 7.2 please contact your local agent

Solar Fire Gold v7.0.10 – 29th Jul 2009 – updates Solar Fire Gold v7.0.x only (21.4 MB)
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v7.0.0 up to v7.0.9

Instructions for Updating new Font Files (PDF)
A new glyph for Eris is included.

ACS Atlas

ACS Atlas Revision History

ACS Atlas Update files for Solar Fire versions 8 and 9
13th Jan 2023 – Updates Solar Fire v8 and v9 ACS Atlas files only..

ACS Atlas Update files for Solar Fire versions 7 and 7.3
22nd June 2016- Updates Solar Fire v7 and v7.3 ACS Atlas files only..

Solar Maps v3

Solar Maps v3.0.14 – 4th Dec 2008—Updates Solar Maps v3.0 upwards (5.5MB)
Release Notes

Common System Files 11th Jan 2005
IF Solar Maps fails upon startup after applying the above patch update, it is probably because you have an older version of Windows, and need some additional updated system files, in which case please apply this patch file. Otherwise you don’t need this. (1.9MB)

Solar Writer v3

Solar Writer v3.8.1.0 – 26 May 2023 – Updates Solar Writer v3.0 upwards
Release Notes
IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Writer is v3.0.0.0 or higher. To check your existing version number, look under the Help > About menu item in Solar Writer.

Solar Writer v2

Solar Writer v2.6.10 – 15th October 2015—Updates Solar Writer v2.0 upwards (8.4MB)
Release Notes

IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Writer is v2.0.0.0 or higher. To check your existing version number, look under the Help > About menu item in Solar Writer.

Solar Writer Interpretation Texts

The following updates are for the individual Solar Writer text reports. You can only download these updates if you have already purchased the report. We suggest that you click Run and Allow the program to be installed. During the installation of one of the updates below, you will be asked for the Username, Serial Number and Password that you used when you first installed the report. WARNING: The text update you download will overwrite the text file that is stored on your computer. If you have made changes to the original text file supplied by us then your changes will be lost if you download and run one of these updates!

JigSaw v2.5.3

IMPORTANT – please read first:
Jigsaw Release Notes

JigSaw v2.5.3 15th Sep 2022—Updates JigSaw v2.5.0 upwards (8MB).

Imperial Astrologer

Imperial Astrologer v1.0.8.1, 17 Jan 2015 For Imperial Astrologer v1.0.0 upwards (22.4MB)