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by RockDoctor
Fri Jan 31, 2025 2:52 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Understand 'Sudden Death'
Replies: 27
Views: 4817

Re: Understand 'Sudden Death'

Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerShell equivalent? There doesn't seem to be any PowerShell equivalent, but you can check out gogrep on Windows. It's quite fast from what I have seen and works both with zipped and unzipped files. Can be run from within PowerShell or stan...
by RockDoctor
Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:43 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Understand 'Sudden Death'
Replies: 27
Views: 4817

Re: Understand 'Sudden Death'

-exec zipgrep dealEnergyDamageWithinDesiredRange {} ... ... ... I had never heard of "zipgrep" before today, but the moment I read that, I knew what it did, most of it's usage, why it was called that, and why it was invented. Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerS...
by RockDoctor
Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:15 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

Firstly that it be mysterious... Achieved. Not necessarily the way you wanted, but it's definitely mysterious to me. I wish that there be a reason that some systems initially appear to be inaccessible Sounds intriguingly mysterious. Once the clash with "Email System.OXP" is fixed and I re...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:38 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

I was trying gas-giant skimming a few days ago. I blew up. I don't have the Deep Horizons OXP. Here you go: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:Deep_Horizons-Gas_Giant_Skimming.zip Ah, so the DeepHorizons address in the Wiki is wrong (as well as almost-dead). You have a Wiki-editing key, don't y...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:35 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

form a united front Fair dibs! Now... if you could have the Species OXP of your darkest dreams, how would you embellish the insectoid systems? What would you like to find in them? What does "insectoid" mean? There are a number of ways of dichtomising (dividing into two) the metazoans (mul...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:30 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

And v 0.4 is now available with a much more radical addition: restricted system entry Is the logic of this as-intended? As far as I can tell, this restriction : Changes the appropriate links on F6 to display in red (oops - my intermittent red-green colour-blindness alarm has gone off ; it's not my ...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:05 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

I seem to have found a bug with Alien.Systems ; can you check it, and see if you can find the fault. (Given the discussion about variable scoping, I'll hazard a guess that you've got a namespace-clash with another OX(P||Z).) I've gone round the loop of "install Alien,Systems ; find bug ; remove...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:13 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

[ If... If... Or... or... Or... Or... I have considered such things for some time, certainly with regards this oxp and don't want to reveal very much at present. However, if a system is both insect inhabited and communist then I don't see why both couldn't be represented in some manner. Some people...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:59 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

More generally, how do the commie insectoids think of themselves? Insects who happen to be commie - or commies who happen to be insects? Commies are always commies first, comrade. Communist theory says that anyone who puts any other loyalty ahead of the communist party is "racist". Not th...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:46 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

it could save some unnecessary calculation when it actually matters, I think I get it: why do the expensive check first when it also has to pass an inexpensive one? Literally, they teach you this in first-year computing science. As you say, you've learned piecemeal ; it's easy to miss noticing this...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:24 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

Is there a way to get the Messages to appear at all of the possible Stations in a System instead of only at the Main Station? Have several vague ideas on how this might be accomplished but before the Tweaking Experiments begin would like the opinion of some better JavaScript writers than myself. My...
by RockDoctor
Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:02 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Alien Systems OXZ
Replies: 63
Views: 12559

Re: Alien Systems OXZ

I was reading the thread because I'm having problems associated with this OXZ. In passing, I saw this, and had a couple of points to throw into the pot, not associated with the actual problem : Great stuff - very funny. A few suggested additions. "insect-messages" "It is not the numbe...
by RockDoctor
Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:44 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Planetfall 2.0 (apparently)
Replies: 423
Views: 52996

Re: Planetfall 2.0 (apparently)

Try using Enter instead of the Space Bar despite what the screen prompt may say. Would also advise to remove the Docking Fees OXZ and see if that helps with the Space Bar not working. Very Nice messages in the Docking Fees OXZ but it is also costing you extra credits that a Commander who is just st...
by RockDoctor
Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:48 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Planetfall 2.0 (apparently)
Replies: 423
Views: 52996

Re: Planetfall 2.0 (apparently)

Not programmer or coder myself, but wish to learn one day. Until that day, I am a little clueless when I ask question such as... Can code from the second or third Elite game make a more immersive landing on planets and moons possible? From what I played or both emulations of those games. I do kind ...
by RockDoctor
Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:11 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Joysticks
Replies: 74
Views: 19991

Re: Joysticks

What you have to do to eliminate the rough flying is to calibrate the joystick. The potentiometers (an assumption!) in the "throttle" are low-precision components - probably only +/- 20% of quoted range, possibly +/-50% - and the carbon track on most "pots" wears fairly rapidly....