Oolite Bulletins

...RED ALERT...RED ALERT...

yep, got red lights everywhere...!

Ok, so it's GALCOP's system that makes 'the call'...

And true, better to survive and get shorted '20 crs' than getting blowed up!

Cmdr Srocket

Ok, I'm cruising to a station. Ships come in triggering red alert.

I wait till they draw first blood...

...then I take them out...!

I go to the email and I find out that 'one was an innocent kill', no credit.

The ship shot and hit me first...! ...and...?

Cmdr Sprocket

hello to all, Commander Sprocket here...

Ok, my on board computer system failed. Purchased a new system complete, works great...! got stars...!

Thanks to all that have helped with this issue...

Sprocket...

cmdr sprocket here...

ok, got the navigation mfd issue fixed, covered, cool...f4, hud-mfd setup...

on the c & p logs, my paste is blocked...circle-line...

sprocket...

hello to all... ...I don,t know if there is a link between the background stars/nebula issue I have and the navigation mfd, but I had stars for about the last 24 hrs and in that time I got the combat and navigation mfd, nice addons. at the end I got blowd up pretty good, pod took me to the station. ...

Ok, thanks... ...so i'm in the thick of it, blasting, dodging, launching, running... ...the game stops, locks up, shuts down, game closes out and i,m at my main computer screen...? Ok, so i bring Oolite back up and wow, got stars, nubula... ...run a couple of hops, all good, time to shut down for th...

"I amended .GNUstepDefaults as advised and it works a treat." Ok, what I am in need of are detailed instructions starting with step one as to how to do this. Windows has no clue on my laptop as to what program to open .GNUstepDefaults to make changes. Need some assist, please? cmdr Sprocke...

ok, after my 'lost my world' break down, iv'e got it covered... before i uninstalled all of oolite, i did save all of my oolite-saves files in an other location...i have survived...! re-installed oolite and yes, "C:\Oolite"... left the station as jameson, 'no stars', same as it was... deci...

i've lost the game...

...need it back...

ok, think i just messed it all up...

...uninstalled all, re-downloaded and installed 1.82, 32 bit windows...

now, still got no stars, just squares in place of stars, nebula...

have saved 'sprocket' as commander, loads only as jameson...

...not real good at this...

sprocket...

fuzzy squares, no nebula or dust clouds...all other graphics work, 3d, ect...it's like the background graphics detail is not there.

sprocket

since 1.82 upgrade, i got stars, then don't have stars, then, stars again. i'm thinking it's a graphics issue, got ideas?
this does not happen during the game, only when starting new ones.

sprocket

hello to all... I also am an ELITE from 1985...took six months, thank you... I found the ELITE game on a 5-1/4" IBM floppy for my Apple IIE computer in a Radio Shack store at the Mall. ...still wish I had that... Found the game once again in a game file hidden in my IBM laptop, it was called Oo...