Oolite Bulletins

And I wouldn't bother too much running the game on Windows through Dosbox. Oolite is a pure 32-bit Windows application and there are no guarantees what will happen if you run it through a DOS emulator. I'm guessing the above is a typo? As I'm not actually using Windows; I keep it on dual boot for e...

Hi again and thanks for the replies. Yes, the problem I was getting was in the XP version of 1.74.2, which was installed out of desperation more than anything. I did not intend using XP for longer than necessary and am now back on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. In an attempt to circumvent the problem I trie...

Hi fellow olliteers. I'm having a rather annoying problem with the bright yellow on screen messages that come up during game play. I've just logged out after a long chase after some craits in my python (just started a new game on XP after my Ubuntu partition imploded). During this chase I had severa...

Thanks Micha, I'll look at the gfx drivers and re-install the game a bit later... tonight perhaps. Edit: Well I did look at the ati drivers and it turned out that the fglrx and catalyst drivers for Ubuntu 10.10 maverick were released a few days ago. I therefore looked in package manager and sure eno...

Micha, thanks very much for the reply. The "oolite --nosplash" option made no difference as the splash screen still appeared. /shrug I removed the deb sources in update manager and removed the installed 1.74 version of oolite through the software centre. Now I am only offered version 1.65-...

Hmm! I just wish sometimes that Linux was as simple as Windows. There are times when I just want to get stuck into some Thargoid bashing without the 3 hour pre-amble messing with setups and configs. I added the repositories for both the oolite package and the gnu-step in Ubuntu 10.10 x64 (maverick) ...