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Thank you so much! I am using Kubuntu 25.04. I made progress with your fork. It started but with no sound. Then I tried replacing the with system audio libraries as documented in the README, but could either start with sound but no speech or if using system espeak, got an error about a missing into...

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 1:10 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 4:09 pm

Vanilla game code?

Not in this instance. Definitely an OXP, but I've no idea which one.

I seem to recall vaguely that the Life in the Frontier OXP (or similar?) presented the possibility to go to the gym when docked at a station in order to maintain the pilot's health...

there was stuff in the Dark Wheel/original docs that came w/ the game that said they lived in hives, i believe like towering termite mounds. presumably they were on a planet, maybe the ship are similar inside. For completeness (I like completeness) [Don't mind me]: Space Trader's Flight Training Ma...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 1:52 am

Redspear wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 4:18 pm

I'm from the 14th century mate.

So Yorkshire then? Where does could rhyme with HUD?

It's the best he culd du.
...and I think it's pretty gud.
...at least better than mine wuld
('ve been). [see?]

Excellent! Brilliant! Thanks, hiran.

I think I haven't thought about this one long enough yet... There certainly seems to be much that is worth some more consideration.

Suggestions for a better name eagerly canvassed! The Elite Plus manual, p. 13, par. 1, Delivery Advice: states: 'Pilot licences are issued only at the planet Lave.' (spelling error is original) Perhaps an alternative name referring to 'New Licensing Offices' or similar might be applicable...?

... Good points, all of them! Yes, and, if Mr. Redman was as good at playing as Mr. Holdstock had confessed to have been, then he might not have got used to the methods of movement so much. ...And, yes, joysticks are beyond my ken. (Assumptions are sneaky little things... -- especially my own.) Rega...

Yes, agreed, Cholmondely. There does seem to be some azimuth:elevation concept involved, but the final application looks a bit wonky. Regarding your first example, though, I think the meaning there is actually, that he rolled 30deg anticlockwise, because rolling is the only (anti-)clockwise manoeuvr...

I'm not freaking out. :lol: All I'm trying to indicate is that I think that I've tried to do my homework as best I know how, and to provide a solid argument to show why Mr. Redman's bearings might very well be random gibberish. ...unless someone can explain how else I should rather interpret them. I...

Yes, thanks, Cholmondely. I have tried to contact him, years ago already. Am still awaiting a reply.

That sure looks like one sweet ride...

I'm not sure that I understand your critique. If the numbers are measured on a 0°-360°, then I would count forwards in the approved manner (clockwise and upwards, for example) and 110:95, 195:15 and 290:85 are all three very different. As are 310:120 & 130:60. And there would not be any negativ...

The second Elite novella, Imprint , by Andy Redman, published in the back of the 1991 Elite Plus "basic flight manual", on the following pages, refer to the following directions/bearings in the context of flight/combat scenarios: p. i2: "20: 40" p. i16: "50: 80", "...

If you want to optimise your travelogue a bit, I hope the following format with launch time might streamline things somewhat for you: DDDD-DDD:HH:MM System Any other details and interesting occurrences. Oh, that is an excellent suggestion. That's such a good suggestion that I'm kicking myself a bit...