Oolite Bulletins

Get out of bed on the wrong side, Dr Nil? I thought I'd made clear that I like the appearance of the game, with the reservation about playing speed. And if I didn't like it, what skin is it off your nose? Let me start my stopwatch and see how long it takes you to produce a syntactically comprehensib...

I put a stopwatch to it. From exiting hyperspace in the vicinity of Zaonce to seeing the 'S' icon appear in the vicinity of the space station took 15 minutes and 40 seconds. I used full speed and the 'J' key whenever it was not mass locked. The frame rate is 49/50 FPS. Is this typical?

W & S (and all other keys) appear to work - that is the speed bar increases/decreases. I think the problem is the failure to display space dust. I temporarily overcame this by switching to full-screen mode, but then the dust disappeared again so there was no indication of progress. The real prob...

No - no space dust. Looking out of the side windows, the stars are stationary.

I've just downloaded Oolite 1.65 to run on a WinXP SP2 laptop. After taking Witchspace to any planet, J for jump works so long as it is not mass locked, but even with thrust on full (and showing full speed on the display) the ship is stationary until J can be used again.