Oolite Bulletins

alexxx: glad you have your sound issues fixed! As an aside, any reason why you are still running FC8? If it's a work PC, you might have no control over it, but we at the Fedora Project currently only supports Fedora 10 and 11. Fedora 12 should be out in November, and soon after that Fedora 10 will n...

Hi, For the last stable release (1.65), separate src and data tarballs are made available, while for the current series of test releases, each version comes in a single tarball. Would the final 1.80 release (or 2.0, etc.) come in separate tarballs, or a single one? I'm finalizing the Fedora packagin...

So the next question is, is there any possible downside to having the macro defined in standard SpiderMonkey? If there is none, I could just ask our xulrunner maintainer to have the macro definition enabled. Answering myself: no . Let's hope I could get an exception from the Fedora packaging folks,...

as far as I know, standard SpiderMonkey is built without the above macro defined. Ah, so that's why. I might have asked this before, since this somehow rings a bell. So the next question is, is there any possible downside to having the macro defined in standard SpiderMonkey? If there is none, I cou...

Hello, Is there any specific reason why Oolite bundles its own SpiderMonkey? Is it just for convenience, or are there deeper reasons? The reason I'm asking is that I'm packaging Oolite for Fedora (yes, we're finally getting GNUstep packages!) and for security reasons, we frown on packages that bundl...

That's by the way exactly my experience with Elite. I played Elite from some Gold-Collection for the C64, which had only very rudimentary documentation. So I had no idea that something like missions existed at all. Therefore I was taken completely by surprise when after a long while of playing sudd...

Restarting an old thread here: apart from stumbling into it, or reading the Wiki, is there a way for users to get the hint that they need to go to Galaxy 3 to get to the next mission (Thargoid Plans)?

Every now and then, when a ship comes under fire a "fragmentary particle" is released, which the sensor detects as a missile launch (a bit annoying when you are using the Missile Sensor add-on). It appears as a light blue dot, cannot be scooped (you get a bounty for hitting it, and it beha...

Attention Fedora users: I have created source RPMs for gnustep-base and oolite, available at gnustep-base: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459210 oolite: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459211 oolite-data: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459212 If you are interest...

Legal status of all ships equals bounty but for thargoids the actual size is used as legal status. But this still does not give an answer between the bounty property of 208 and an awarded bounty of 108. Maybe only limit the value when scanclass thargoid? Satellite's worth 100, so this actually make...

and the rest are too intelligent to risk their lives as passengers, let alone crew! So some genders are more foolhardy than others :shock: Actually, come to think of it, most racing drivers are male. Though considering you include women and hermaphrodites, perhaps some of the other genders are simp...

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

Funny when it's a large shipment you need a ship's safe the size of Fort Knox yet it still fits.

We can think of it as if it's commodities papers that are being traded, not the physical stuff itself, perhaps.

Just tried it and it works really well: now I know which pirate to waste my missiles on (the ones with higher bounties tend to fly better too). I'm encountering a problem with Thargoid Spy Satellites though -- the scanner lists a bounty of 208 cr, but satellites always pay out only 100 credits. Weir...

That's the trick. Is there a FAQ to put this in? Solved the problem straight up. Not sure, actually. Ubuntu should have a PulseAudio FAQ; actually, you should file a bug on Ubuntu's Launchpad, as newer SDLs has the ability to use PulseAudio for output natively. Another option if you're on GNOME is ...

The official license change announcement specifies that 1.65 is now dual-licensed in its entirety and may be distributed under GPL v2 or later. Wonderful, thanks. Now I just have to worry about packaging 1.71.2 (the 1.65 package is done). Fedora already has a SpiderMonkey JS package, but Oolite doe...