Oolite Bulletins

Yes, over to you Spud42.

btw. The rest of his crew was Ken Borden, Cora Miles, Maggie Robbins, Ludger Brink. Just replayed it

Had to laugh about LISP... Had to code OO in Scheme though.

Pascal was nice. But I always loved digging into 6502 and m68k assembler code.

why, thanks! <Looking for hammer, saw and drill>

Don't know... probl. too easy, but I have to find some rum, a pineapple to make a pina colada


Who was on board of the shuttle Atlantis to plant explosives on the surface of Attila to divert it into a stable orbit around Earth?

ok, have to admit "LMGoogleTFY" was my friend... Miranda Hart -> Miranda class?

Name: USS Reliant in Wrath of Khan?
Class: no idea (beside constituition the only one I ever heard of was constellation class???)

don't know if it helps, but on my old Desktop it helped to reduce the screen depth to 16bit to gain some more fps.

<low spec machine derailment> thanks svengali for the interesting hint on the hidden setting. However I set it to 30fps like adviced and things now got jerky on my machine. (btw. my .Gnustepdefaults was in XML rather than in Openstep syntax). It is interesting concerning battery consumption though. ...

Hello Mr. Puds, also playing on an old dell notebook with humble intel gfx so I'm one the same boat, I have to be careful what to install and what not. Try Cody's advice reduce the graphic details first one step to normal detail and if to no avail another step down to reduced detail. You will loose ...

Ahoi there, spacer! May your laser canon always trigger faster than your opponent...

What the others said. Eye candy like povray planets and so on should be save to use without altering the taste of the vanilla game. However, you said you came here from pioneer, one oxp that does alter the original game behaviour a lot but which might be something for you is phkb's ship configuratio...

the orginal shadered version is irc maintained by spara. I keep an eye on the set without shader effects.

Kudos to the devs! Thanks for all the efforts.

Even though it goes up and down the media these days I still have to grin listening to Mrs Trump being rickroll'd as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KtzdP7mR-4

Meanwhile, in the Labour Party, leadership challenger (because that's what you do when your political opponents are in disarray: tear yourselves apart) Angie the Eagle seems to have adopted the campaign slogan "Argh": http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh492/dd15br/1200x-1_zpsf5cg2ae4.jp...

Smivs wrote:

And it's the Euros final tonight........ <he sighs wistfully at what might have been>

<sighs> Aye...