Oolite Bulletins

Hi Jonah. From your description it sounds like you installed Oolite from the Ubuntu software repositories. The last time I checked they were offering a very outdated version of Oolite. I would suggest that you check what version you are running and uninstall it if need be. You can download the most...

The flickery thing seems to be normal.....I always have to play in full-screen mode. It's the F12 key if you haven't found it yet. I can't play it in full-screen mode - the display is so unstable as to render it useless - but with an unmaximised window stretched almost to its limit, it plays clean....

What gfx are you running? gfx? Graphics card/processor, I assume? It's an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. The machine is an hp G62 a29SA laptop with an AMD 64 AthlonII dual core processor, 3GB RAM Have you tried "ole faithful" - and running with the -nosplash option set - that sorts out a lo...

as for the ~/GNU Step/Applications/Oolite folder, that folder is not created by by the current installer for linux =-https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9570]New distribution-neutral package format . Do you remember how you installed oolite 1.75.2 ? I downloaded the package from the ool...

*laughs* both of those happened to me. Ramming a police Viper in the engines happened too (BTW why do I have to become an Offender just for ramming it?...) Yeah, but at least you rammed him . I got slagged as an Offender when one of them rammed me! I was on short finals (manual docking) and mere ya...

Eyup miduk; (I lived in Nottingham for twenty-odd years) Ta muchly for the advice; I hadn't even considered the possibility of hidden files and folders. It didn't help, of course that I realised after posting the request that I was using v1.65 and most addons are written for 1.72 or later. However, ...

I was excited to find Oolite as I used to love Elite on my old Atari ST, and I've been playing happily - and not getting killed too often - for a couple of weeks now, on an hp laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). As an aside, I seem to be the only person who can get on with Unity - but that'...