Oolite Bulletins

DavidKroc wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 4:07 pm

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:30 am

The Expansion Manager just uses whatever you have put in the description field in the oxz manifest. In the case of Sidewinder NG the description reads as "Sidewinder NG", which is what is shown.

Ok. I'll fix that in version 1.5.

Yeah. Cholmondely's explanation was better.

...there was a series with Amanda Tapping , called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals". Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper , another member of her crew turned out to be Nikol...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:42 pm

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:08 am

Curse windows 7 and windows update.

Well, sir? Confess!! (Then there will be something on record for people to gaze at the next time you waltz off for another decade or so!)

I know what you did.
You read my other reply, then put "Autotrack" into the search box.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:48 am

Are there any copies of this one anywhere?

Nope.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:32 pm

BACK UP YOUR FILES, PEOPLE.

Lost in the great re-format, along with Autotrack and the script I used to format the planetinfo file for Distant Suns.

I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed). A novel that was also a film! You then shall have either one or one-and-a-half bonus points, and may - or may not - currently be ...

Fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla. Not sure if it fits the bill, but after her notoriety in Stargate (SG1) series, there was a series with Amanda Tapping , called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals...

Unless there is a protest, here is the new puzzle, inspired by the mention of Edison: fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla. I'm thinking of a particular work, written by an online acquaintance of mine, but I'm sure there are several others. So let's just see if anyone can guess that particular w...

Okay, I'm going to reveal the answers to two more of your clues, and claim the poisoned chalice. (Mine! All mine!) Two more of the clues I gave have been answered, and I'll add another clue for each of the ones left, but remember that there are lots of others possibilities... ECoM - novel, 1890s - T...

ffutures wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:40 pm

ECoM - novel, 1890s - The first word of the title is a real person's surname

I had never heard of that one before. According to its Wikipedia page, it was quite innovative. (Thanks, ChatGPT, for finding it for me. You're a much better AI helper than lame-o Gemini.)

TAM - novel, 1960s - Author's initials are ABC The Alternate Martians by A. Bertram Chandler Captain Wilkinson is given the mission to pilot a scientific research ship to Mars to test a theory of a Professor who believes that the Mars of Burroughs and that of HG Wells might have existed in some oth...

TAM - novel, 1960s - Author's initials are ABC I thought I would cheat phone a friend with this clue. I learnt that Gemini is still a very lame AI helper:- W. Wildeblood, Esq.: "sci-fi author with initials ABC" Gemini: "Arthur C. Clarke is a science fiction author with initials ABC.&...

TAT - film, 1970s - The first and last words of the title are the same Time After Time is a 1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen. Filmed in Panavision, it was the directing debut of Meyer, whose s...

I'd like to avoid tossing any garbage into the global space if it's at all possible... I'm reluctant to do it, but here's what I'm thinking: // ...in the worldScript (outside of any function...) if(!OXP){var OXP = {};} // creates an "OXP" object in the global space OXP.JEM = {}; // A &quo...

Is there something less "communist" than a praying mantis (-oid) which will happily eat members of it's own species, including it's own descendents (they don't have that sort of recognition system, not providing any parental care), once it has extracted the sperm sample it wants from them...

I've just been looking at the lo-o-o-o-ng list of Warnings for my Vital Statistics OXP. I don't understand any of it - and thus have no idea as to what might be able to do about it. Can you help? I'ma guess the first 38 lines are caused by you using a Mac-specific text-editor which has added some h...