Oolite Bulletins

Back to the original problem. If you have a low framerate for some reason the keyboard becomes very insensitive, this is because the keyboard events are only polled between frames. I've had this when I managed to mess up my opengl setup, it was almost impossible to dock using the keyboard. I'm still...

You ever read lisp ?

Looks like a new variant called plisp

In a major battle your space compass can be damaged, so finding the space station on the dark side would be impossible. (being a pc user I'm a bit twitchy about space compasses) Even with the most basic space compass, if you fly to the planet it then changes to guide you to the station. With regard...

I wrote a 3D space game (in C of all languages) which allowed multiple players to fly around in the same space. I never really got as far as collision detection or weapons though :P The main problem I had was bandwidth, because for every object which is either computer controlled or human controlled...

I'm pretty sure that if you're on one of the nicer trade routes, you can make 10,000 credits per run, now if you avoid the shipping lane, in a fast ship you can get docked, sell, buy, jump pretty damn quickly. I don't see how piracy can compete with this rate of income. Having said that piracy is fa...

It's all hard-coded at the moment, so the ships presented by missions always appear at the center of the screen, and ships on the shipyard screen always in the correct place. In fact the center of the model is positioned in 3d space relative to the player's viewpoint. It could be possible to write ...

zone serial makes no difference and then it only matters when you have secondary NS servers doing ixfr.

And the only requirement is that you must increment it when the zone file changes.

If you're using *unix and you install postgresql it kindly installs man pages on SQL for you. Most of which is applicable to mysql. Alternatively the postgresql documentation is available online, I find it slightly easier to use than the mysql documentation. Yes I am completely biased in favour of p...