Oolite Bulletins

All sorted, thanks Cool! Although the OXP follows the tale fairly well, this is Hollywood, and the screenplay does differ somewhat, here and there. Perhaps a kindly Mod could add a warning to the OP: if you use Griff's shipset, do not install the Coyote's Run for Griff OXP contained within the .zip...

Nice - I may have to print this at <cough> work <cough>...

So how many other Ooliters are in on the new Kickstarter? I'm going to have to let Dan sort out my Veteran uplift - since I've pledged for boxed set of four hardbacks but already pledged for paperbacks of Drew's and Allen Stroud's books (and I have two versions of Fusion already (Kindle and a Smashw...

drew wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

So how does the wife feel about that caterpillar on your lip, Drew? Will you be allowed to keep it when Movember is over?

No. She hates it.

Cheers,

Drew.

Yup, that seems to be a common feature of our Mo Sistas... (my wife is struggling to look at me at the moment...)

Cody wrote:

She was a great writer, and the only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to have written sci-fi (I think) - Canopus in Argos: Archives was strangely excellent.

My wife told me just a few minutes ago. We're losing a lot of great SF writers this year!

I played Paradroid, Uridium and AlleyKat* to completion and then when I got my Amiga I played Pinball Dreams a lot, really, really, a lot.

(Andrew Braybrook was my programming hero - what he managed to get the C64 to do was quite astonishing)

OK, I know we've got a lot of 8-bit old timers on the boards.

This KS has already reached its funding level - but I wouldn't want anybody to miss out!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob ... e-pioneers

This Kickstarter got funded - did anybody else back it?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/126 ... s-art-book

I'm hoping that, eventually, that the in-system trip, along the space lane is so full of life and exciting (and necessary?) that it becomes an integral part of the game. I used to use TAF and deliberately stay in the lanes because I've never been able to justify the Jump Drive in a game which is no ...

Yeah we've noticed this a lot with our students recently downloading stuff from Sourceforge...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08 ... installer/

We always suspected that Earth-sized and composition type planets would be common place - given how "normal" our sun is - there will even be lots of Earth sized planets in those suns Goldilocks zones, the real trick for a planet with a molten iron core (good for generating useful magnetic ...