Oolite Bulletins

Thanks Commander_X,

That didn't work...but...glxgears in a container *is* something that (according to Google at least) others have got working.

So I have a few blogposts to work through.

OK, I'm running Docker on a Mac (Mojave 10.14.6). I have XQuartz installed as Xserver (see https://sourabhbajaj.com/blog/2017/02/07/gui-applications-docker-mac/) I have pushed the image I created to Dockerhub if anyone cares to reproduce: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/crush157/oolite Dock...

Hi, I'm trying to run Oolite in a Docker container (don't ask). I'm using Ubuntu as my base image. I have installed the 1.90 release into the image, but when I try to run it I keep getting tripped up by missing shared libs. The latest one has me stumped, because it's missing ALSA libs, which accordi...

All looks great so far

What we want is a full rewrite of oolite in HTML5/WebGL. ... Also, it so happens that a WebGL online course will begin in a few days on coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/webgl I've done some playing about with Three.js, but currently have limited bandwidth due to day_job && small_ch...

Oops! My bad. I had a brain fart - of course Oolite is written Objective C.

Has anyone got any idea how practical it would be to port Oolite to JavaScript?

Emscripten (and others) will apparently compile C++ to JavaScript, and as I would like to be able to play Oolite on my ChromeBook, this seemed a possible route.

I find the combat balance in 1.80 really quite unfriendly, especially as someone who tries to grab a quick few minutes here and there, which means using the keyboard (<aside> if anyone knows of a little full featured joystick that will fit easily on a laptop bag for use on the go, please tell me </a...

No, I'm finding 1.80 a right pain in the posterior. I can either do milk runs (yawn) or die horribly.

I posted in more detail on the other thread http://oolite.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic ... 45#p226115

Falcon777 wrote:

I mean, it's not like fuel is THAT expensive.

I know, just years of running projects on a shoestring have left me with a horror of unnecessary costs (even in an imaginary business)

Commander_X wrote:

... or just use the Space Compass.

An excellent suggestion sir!

Thanks

Prior to 1.80 my refuelling technique was to head straight for the sun until mass locked then level off and fly straight at the solar horizon. Worked just fine - full fuel tanks and away just fine. With 1.80 I can't see where the damned horizon is 'cos the sun is too damned fuzzy. Any suggestions (o...

I was just musing about this again on the way home - I don't think you should be able to clean your legal record by ejecting either.

Well, I'm synching the AddOns folder already, so it's just a case of clearing out the old OXPs (now done).

And yes you're right, I was mentally parsing string to float "1.80".to_f => 1.8

Thanks