Oolite Bulletins

Good to get a perspective on the scale of the task from an expert in the code. From what you've said, it sounds like the code could be getting to or past the point of no return where it might be more productive to start again than to try to bring it up to date. Is the best approach to try to keep i...

Today Oolite is already a mix of C/C++ and Objective C. Just take Oolite core (Objective C), the main classes for the various operating systems (C++, Objective C) and classes contained in dependencies (C/C++). If functionality were transported class by class, method by method we could have that smo...

Thanks for your response. I agree that many dependencies are not worth upgrading, but thinking of SDL specifically, it looks like SDL3 would open up possibilities for making enhancements in audio, video etc.in future. Possibly, but a previous attempt at a transition to SDL2 at some point didn't go ...

1) Might it not be, that with the development of AI, that we could eventually hand over development of Oolite to a more developed AI? - https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=21850 - Qwen's suggestions for modding Oolite - Wildeblood's recent publications of AI derived scripts (Witchbank for just ...

There are a few challenges. From my high level browse around the repository and the wiki, in my opinion, the main one is that the code is in Objective-C which few developers know. This is correct. Objective-C is like Latin these days, people don't use it and they just don't care about using it neit...

The engine has been using 64-bit floats for its world representation for quite a few years and as a result can now handle objects at extreme distances very well. Extreme distances meaning like Earth to the edge of the solar system with centimeter precision - and I am most likely grossly underestimat...

What do "p625" and "c35" mean? p is the number of collision checks done using a simple collision radius check, performed away from the player. c is the number of collisions using a more precise algorithm, performed within range of the player. Range is a value depending on the co...

You'll still have to find someone who a) runs still 1.77.1 and b) wants to do it. I would rate the probability as significantly low.

No, of course it's not true anymore. I can think of a bunch of stuff that would make this fall flat today.

Can't Bicornis post here? I have already activated his account.

Are we comfortable with me replacing the existing files with these updated ones, and then adding something like this to the description at the top: 24 June, 2025 Note: The original 1.90 release referenced a now defunct web URL for downloading OXP's. Due to ongoing build issues, we are unable to reb...

Now we're talking. These two work perfectly. I even tried updating the original (now bad) x64 1.90 depoyment installer and it updated it successfully to the new and correct 1.90 test release. So even if someone has downloaded 1.90 in the past they can now just run the 1.7MB updater to test release a...

OK, Deployment to Test release installers updated, and ready to test: Oolite-1.90_x64-Deployment-to-Test-Release.exe Oolite-1.90_x86-Deployment-to-Test-Release.exe These updaters don't function correctly. They install the Test Release version of the executable in the Oolite root install folder and ...

Just found out that the Intel HD 3000 is not supported under Windows 10. Additionally its latest driver version supprts OpenGL only up to 3.1.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... phics.html

Looks like 1.91 on that laptop is indeed a no-go.

Whatever it is you have installed, it is not installed properly and so it falls back to software rendering.

I suggest you donwload the most recent driver for your gfx card and manually install it. -- See next message

As for 1.90, you are getting less than 5 fps when in space, right?