Oolite Bulletins

I think that the mouse is usually attributed to Doug Englebart . I read about Englebart (here comes another book recommendation...) in "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop . It's a well-written account of the entire history of why and how our computers came to be the way that they ar...

Yes, in the US there seems to be far less embarrassment about saying "I'd like to make some money" and knowledge of finance, commerce and marketing is seen as essential. In the UK, that's been a real problem because we've been much more reserved, and so great inventions have sat in the lab...

It's a good book and there are some great stories of how a few British boffins did some incredible work with a limited budget and no official support. Typical for this country, really.

I press the '9' key to activate mine...

Personally, I find that when a pair of Rattle-Cutters/Basilisks are making my Naval Energy Unit look like a bicycle dynamo, I'm really grateful for the e-bomb!

Griff wrote:

Thanks for the heads up, i've ordered one.

Nice one, Griff! I'm glad I mentioned it!

I don't know whether you guys already know about this, but the story of how Braben and Bell developed 'Elite' is told in one chapter of a book that I've bought called "Backroom Boys" by Francis Spufford . The book only has 6 chapters, so each chapter has 30 or 40 pages and each is dedicate...

Hi, JohnnyBoy, and first of all welcome to the boards, and of course to this great game! :D (Although you've been a long time lurker.) Oolite 1.65 is the latest official release. Oolite is under continuous development, so there have been a couple of test releases since. Right now we're at version 1...

Thanks for the replies, guys! My Mini has 1GB of (shared) memory and I am using v.1.65 of Oolite (that's the most recent that I can see for download). Ahruman, your reply suggests that the collision detection of several hundred objects would produce a slow-down with any computer and that the size an...

Hello there! I've been a long-time 'lurker', but this is my first post. I run Oolite on a 1.66GHz Intel Mac Mini, and it's fine most of the time. However when there's a large explosion - for example, when an Ixian battle cruiser slightly misjudges its docking approach :roll: - the frame rate seems t...