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- Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: spoiler: cloverfield & The Mist
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4056
Only a few Stephen King books translated to film well (IMHO)... Shawshank Redemption - film follows the book plot pretty much faithfully, and is a completely wondrous film.. The Green Mile - again, follows the book plot closely. Great acting. Delores Claiborne - just had the best story.. Stand By Me...
- Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:20 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: So when was your First Encounter (fnarr, fnarr) of Elite
- Replies: 161
- Views: 78777
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Remembering the old days, and requesting the new ways
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9815
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:45 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Remembering the old days, and requesting the new ways
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9815
Remembering the old days, and requesting the new ways
When I was but a wee nipper, Elite was THE game. Played it on a BBCMicro first of all, then the Spectrum version. Have since played most of the PC varieties, of which Oolite is, of course, the best. BUT - there has always been a niggle in the back of my mind. The gameplay engine has always been abou...
- Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:05 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14069
Best way to enjoy any old Genesis / Snes game is via an emulator and Roms. Helps if you are on a Windows PC, but I believe there are emulators out there for most systems.. Grey area legally for the Roms , but so very easy to find. Emulators Genesis/Megadrive, get KFusion SNES, get ZSNES. Wont tell y...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14069
Ahhhh!! Tie Fighter!! And X-Wing!! If you are a PC person, you can now play these old classics with shiny 3D graphics - EA released a version not long back which was enabled to work with the newer versions of Windows and Graphics.... I'll never forget playing X-wing for the first time, and when you ...
- Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:02 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14069
Sgt Schultz - nice choices.... Being a mostly PC man, I have to stick Freelancer in there as a modern tribute to Elite... Also - just for the general atmosphere and well done storyline - Freespace 2. A quality title still going strong with many Mods keeping it fresh. Old School - bit off the wall he...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:33 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14069
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:20 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Greetings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14069
I'm a gamer - grew up on the Speccy (aaah Elite on the 128K..), moved onto PC. Have a full library of latest and greatest games, Oblivion, Stalker, FEAR, Thief etc etc........ Find myself coming back to Oolite more and more - the simplicity , the pureness of the gameplay, the ability to add OXPs as ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:26 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
My profession is a computer programmer - not that you would know it with the lack of knowledge I have so far displayed on this forum :lol: :lol: My language is definitely NOT Objective-C however. I am hoping to be able to get my head round it, fiddle about here and there, and eventually contribute s...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
Thankyou all - as usual, good and informative help.. It was the latest version of GNUstep that was at fault - i have downgraded to 1.11.1 and everything is fine and dandy. Well, nearly - everything compiles, but get a 'js32.dll not found' error when i try to open the oolite app.... oh well, i shall ...
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:02 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:26 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:23 pm
- Forum: Oolite-PC
- Topic: Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11261
Building under Windows - a Noob has problems...
Following the excellent Wiki instructions on doing a Windows build for oolite...... i get to the 'make' step, after following all previous instructions to the letter, and get the following errors... $ make Making all for objc_program oolite... Compiling file src/Core/AI.m ... /bin/sh: sdl-config: co...